What are you looking forward to in Spring 2.0?

Posted on August 2nd, 2006 by Ben Hale in Spring, 2.0.

Ben Hale

Spring 2.0 is coming and I for one am excited. I can still remember the first time that I heard about all of the new features that would be in the release at last year's The Spring Experience. The asynchronous JMS message reception and the AOP integration with AspectJ excited me the most (a bit of drooling involved actually), but even then there were many other improvements and the list has only grown since.

Alas, I know that most of you aren't middle-tier nerds like me, so what are you excited about? The new XML dialects and XSD support? The improved JSP taglib? How about that <tx:annotation-driven />? Maybe you love that Groovy support instead.

Actually, instead of me guessing why don't you use the comments below to let us know what you're looking forward to.

 

4 responses

  1. GB says:

    Added on August 3rd, 2006 at 3:10 am -Quote

    For sure XSD support and the revamped XML configuration will make application contexts much easier to write and to read. We're already seeing the value of this in the way Spring Modules enables adding declarative caching services in a clear and concise way.

    The @Transactional annotations are also a great addition. It will bring transaction configuration back in the code, where it belongs, but in a non obtrusive way.

    I'm not a lot into AOP and other middle-tier stuff, but I'm sure they will benefit to some teams.

  2. Mikael Gueck says:

    Added on August 3rd, 2006 at 3:28 am -Quote

    Spring Web Flow and JPA tools.

  3. Anders Engström says:

    Added on August 3rd, 2006 at 5:24 am -Quote

    The AspectJ-integration (DI into regular java classes such as entity objects etc.) is really cool. It makes it possible to write more DDD-like applications taking a step away from the otherwise standard "service driven" Spring applications.

    I'm also really excited about the scripting integration. I'm just waiting for the use case that will allow me to sneak in some Ruby into the application *grin*.

  4. Joe Mays says:

    Added on August 7th, 2006 at 9:27 am -Quote

    The async JMS stuff is really important for us - it's the last thing we use EJBs for, and can't wait to get off of our app server and just build WARs…

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