* upgraded to Hibernate 3.3.0 (while retaining compatibility with Hibernate 3.1/3.2) * upgraded to iBATIS SQL Maps 2.3.2 (while retaining compatibility with iBATIS 2.3.0) Package org.springframework replacement values Package org.springframework.beans * revised GenericTypeAwarePropertyDescriptor for compatibility with IBM's JDK 1.6 (avoiding NPE) * TypeMismatchException shows type description for mismatching interfaces) * CustomNumberEditor explicitly removes all inline whitespace from input Strings (for compatibility with French locales) * added "getDescription()" method to BeanDefinition interface (exposing the

(2008-04-28) ------------------------------------- General * upgraded to AspectJ 1.6 (while retaining compatibility with AspectJ 1.5.x) * fixed spring-core.jar's manifest to contain correct OSGi Import-Package PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver resolves encoded jar URIs before creating JarFiles (for WebSphere compatibility) * PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver catches NoClassDefFoundError when looking for presence SimpleMetadataReaderFactory uses ResourceLoader's ClassLoader for loading annotation classes (for OSGi compatibility) Package org.springframework.jdbc * JdbcTemplate explicitly detects and skips null ResultSets

2 (retaining compatibility with AspectJ 1.5.x and 1.6.x) * upgraded to EHCache 1.5.0 (retaining compatibility with EHCache 1.2 and higher) * upgraded to TestNG 5.8 (retaining compatibility with TestNG 5 5.5 and higher) * upgraded to OpenJPA 1.1.0 (retaining compatibility with OpenJPA 1.0.x as well as 1.2.0) * upgraded to EclipseLink 1.0.1 (EclipseLinkJpaVendorAdapter requires EclipseLink 1.0.0+ now) HibernateJpaDialect checks "EntityManager.getDelegate()" as well to find Hibernate Session (for Seam compatibility) * added "persistenceXmlLocation" property to DefaultPersistenceUnitManager, as alternative to

2 (retaining compatibility with AspectJ 1.5.x and 1.6.x) * upgraded to EHCache 1.5.0 (retaining compatibility with EHCache 1.2 and higher) * upgraded to TestNG 5.8 (retaining compatibility with TestNG 5 5.5 and higher) * upgraded to OpenJPA 1.1.0 (retaining compatibility with OpenJPA 1.0.x as well as 1.2.0) * upgraded to EclipseLink 1.0.1 (EclipseLinkJpaVendorAdapter requires EclipseLink 1.0.0+ now) HibernateJpaDialect checks "EntityManager.getDelegate()" as well to find Hibernate Session (for Seam compatibility) * added "persistenceXmlLocation" property to DefaultPersistenceUnitManager, as alternative to

excludes types to match (for OSGi LTW compatibility) * restored support for null location array argument in ClassPathXmlApplicationContext (for Apache CXF compatibility) * added "registration" attribute to non-null (for WebLogic cluster compatibility) * fixed SQLException translation for IBM DB2 and MS SQL to operate on error codes first, just falling back to SQL state * added MySQL NDB error codes and further OncePerRequestFilter cleans up its marker attribute at the end of each outer request (for Portlet compatibility) * RequestContextFilter supports "threadContextInheritable" init-param (analogous to DispatcherServlet)

AopNamespaceUtils.registerAutoProxyCreatorIfNecessary(ParserContext,Object) for Spring 2.0 compatibility Package org.springframework.beans * introduced PropertyAccessorFactory facade for obtaining BeanWrapper Local/SimpleRemoteSlsbInvokerInterceptor use EJB(Local)Home for EJB 2.x detection, for WebSphere compatibility * SimpleRemoteSlsbInvokerInterceptor properly detects CORBA connect failures on the IBM JVM (for IBM DB2 and MS SQL by default * added further default "sql-error-codes.xml" mappings for MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle * DatabaseStartupValidator lets startup continue instead of 'busy' waiting

indication) * XML bean "id" and "name" (aliases) are allowed to define the same name (for backwards compatibility with Spring 1.2.8) * BeanDefinitionDecorators are applied to inner beans as well (in particular: handler as well * extracted "getViewNameForUrlPath(String)" in UrlFilenameViewController, for full compatibility with Spring 1.2.8 * added "alwaysInclude" bean property to InternalResourceView, for enforcing Package org.springframework.context * added serialVersionUID to ApplicationEvent, for serialization compatibility with Spring 1.2 * LocaleContextHolder supports standard ThreadLocal as well as InheritableThreadLocal

Package org.springframework.context * added serialVersionUID to ApplicationEvent, for serialization compatibility with Spring 1.2 * LocaleContextHolder supports standard ThreadLocal as well as InheritableThreadLocal DefaultListableBeanFactory, to allow for turning off eager class loading * restored Spring 1.2 compatibility for default-lazy-init="true", with respect to detection of special beans by type * "idref" tag General * added showcases to "samples" directory * various documentation clarifications * restored compatibility with IBM JDK 1.3 (with respect to referring to constants defined in implemented interfaces)

DefaultListableBeanFactory, to allow for turning off eager class loading * restored Spring 1.2 compatibility for default-lazy-init="true", with respect to detection of special beans by type * "idref" tag General * added showcases to "samples" directory * various documentation clarifications * restored compatibility with IBM JDK 1.3 (with respect to referring to constants defined in implemented interfaces) BeanDefinitionParserDelegate * re-introduced Spring 1.2 XmlBeanDefinitionParser SPI for backwards compatibility in case of "parserClass" specified Package org.springframework.context * synchronized Abstr

conflicts * added deprecated "findXxx" signatures back to NamespaceHandlerSupport, for full compatibility with Spring 2.0 final * added protected "shouldGenerateIdAsFallback()" template method to Ab indication) * XML bean "id" and "name" (aliases) are allowed to define the same name (for backwards compatibility with Spring 1.2.8) * BeanDefinitionDecorators are applied to inner beans as well (in particular: handler as well * extracted "getViewNameForUrlPath(String)" in UrlFilenameViewController, for full compatibility with Spring 1.2.8 * added "alwaysInclude" bean property to InternalResourceView, for enforcing