Spring Framework Overview Version 5.3.36-SNAPSHOT Table of Contents 1. What We Mean by "Spring" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. History of Spring and the Spring Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Design Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Spring makes it easy to create Java enterprise applications. It provides everything you need to embrace

SPRING FRAMEWORK CHANGELOG =========================== http://www.spring.io Changes in version 3.2.11 (2014-09-04) ------------------------------------- fixed cachingConnectionFactory should catch exceptions fixed ServerEndpointExporter causes application context refresh to fail with an NPE when used in a Spring Boot app (SPR-12109) update Apache HttpComponents to 4.3.5 - CVE-2014-3577: Apache HttpComponents fixed shallowEtagHeaderFilter doesn't support Servlet 3.1 setContentLengthLong (SPR-12097) exclude spring-framework-bom artifacts from release distributions (SPR-12087) include all source artifacts in published

SPRING FRAMEWORK CHANGELOG ========================== http://www.springsource.org Changes in version 3.0.2 (2010-04-02) ------------------------------------- * fixed cross-module version ranges in OSGi handling for direct field access with ConversionService * @InitBinder methods support all applicable Spring 3.0 parameter annotations as well * fixed @RequestParam(required=false) regression for @InitBinder canRead/canWrite/read signatures * fixed "mvc:view-controller" to work in a fully isolated fashion on Spring Dynamic Modules * DefaultRequestToViewNameTranslator strips trailing slashes as well (can also be

SPRING FRAMEWORK CHANGELOG ========================== http://www.springframework.org Changes in version 1.2.8 (7.5.2006) ----------------------------------- General: * included "tiger" source tree in in source build (spring-src.zip) Package org.springframework.aop * fixed Cglib2AopProxy to register an explicitly given ClassLoader with the CGLIB Enhancer * fixed CustomizableTraceInterceptor to expose changed MutablePropertyValues's "addPropertyValue" signature to void, to remain binary compatible with Spring <=1.2.6 * fixed BeanArrayPropertyEditor to translate null value to null byte array * added CharArrayPropertyEditor

SPRING FRAMEWORK CHANGELOG =========================== http://www.spring.io Changes in version 3.2.10 (2014-07-15) ------------------------------------- restored backward compatibility in RestTemplate's (2014-05-20) ------------------------------------- added basic Java 8 bytecode compatibility for Spring 3.2.x through ASM 5.0.2 (SPR- 11656, SPR-11719) fixed potential excessive memory and CPU usage (SPR-11545 message (SPR-9671( improved exception message for failed property access in SpEL (SPR-11535) fixed Spring MVC Test async result timing issue (SPR-11516) treat empty log config refresh interval as infinite

SPRING FRAMEWORK CHANGELOG ========================== http://www.springframework.org Changes in version 1.1.1 (30.9.2004) ------------------------------------ Package org.springframework.aop * modified springframework.test * included new "test" package in mock JAR, offering superclasses for tests requiring Spring contexts Package org.springframework.web * fixed "createRelative" implementation in ServletContextResource forwarding to a named servlet (e.g. to apply Spring HandlerInterceptors) * added ServletWrappingController, wrapping a servlet instance (e.g. to apply Spring HandlerInterceptors to Struts) * added "exposeHelpers"

SPRING FRAMEWORK CHANGELOG =========================== http://www.spring.io Changes in version 3.2.9 (2014-05-20) ------------------------------------- added basic Java 8 bytecode compatibility for Spring Spring 3.2.x through ASM 5.0.2 (SPR- 11656, SPR-11719) fixed potential excessive memory and CPU usage (SPR-11545, SPR-11520, SPR-11606, SPR-11720, SPR-9274) fixed cache key issues for methods with arguments message (SPR-9671( improved exception message for failed property access in SpEL (SPR-11535) fixed Spring MVC Test async result timing issue (SPR-11516) treat empty log config refresh interval as infinite

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