# java/j2ee Application Framework ## The Spring Framework - Reference Documentation Version 2.5.4 Copyright $ \copyright $ 2004-2008 Rod Johnson, Juergen Hoeller, Alef Arendsen, Colin Sampaleanu, 1. Introduction.....16 1.1. Overview.....16 1.2. Usagescenarios.....18 2. What's new in Spring 2.0 and 2.5?.....21 2.1. Introduction.....21 2.2. The Inversion of Control (IoC) container.. 2.5.1. Sensible defaulting in Spring MVC.....25 2.5.2. Portlet framework.....25 2.5.3. Annotation-based controllers.....25 2.5.4. A form tag library for Spring MVC.....25 2.5.5. Tiles 2 support

## SPRING FRAMEWORK CHANGELOG #### http://www.springframework.org #### Changes in version 2.5.4 (2008-04-28) ## General * upgraded to AspectJ 1.6 (while retaining compatibility with AspectJ 1.5.x) x) * fixed spring-core.jar's manifest to contain correct OSGi Import-Package declaration * removed superfluous DynamicImport-Package declarations from OSGi manifests * all decorator proxies are BeanWrapper's fallback to the global JavaBeans PropertyEditorManager * DirectFieldAccessor registers Spring's common default PropertyEditors (like BeanWrapperImpl does) * fixed AbstractBeanDefinition

## SPRING FRAMEWORK CHANGELOG ___ http://www.spring.io Changes in version 3.2.11 (2014-09-04) fixed cachingConnectionFactory should catch exceptions on logical close (SPR-12148) allow Cache.get(Object 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 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 manifests * fixed contents of org.springframework (TransactionalTestExecutionListener) * @Value processing works in test instances (using the test context framework) as well now * @DirtiesContext is now inherited for class-level usage * NativeWebRequest direct field access with ConversionService * @InitBinder methods support all applicable Spring 3.0 parameter annotations as well * fixed @RequestParam(required=false) regression for @InitBinder

# SPRING FRAMEWORK CHANGELOG http://www.springframework.org ###### Changes in version 1.2.8 (7.5.2006) ## General: * included "tiger" source tree in source build (spring-src.zip) #### Package 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 throwing and catching of NoSuchBeanDefinitionExceptions * "JavaScriptEscape" feature of Spring tags correctly escapes "" inside a literal value * fixed AbstractJasperReportsView and subclasses

## SPRING FRAMEWORK CHANGELOG ___ http://www.spring.io Changes in version 3.2.10 (2014-07-15) ___ restored backward compatibility in RestTemplate's messageConverters (SPR-11962) consistent declaration (SPR-11876) Changes in version 3.2.9 (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) getTestExecution Listeners (SPR-11804) treat empty

test * included new "test" package in mock JAR, offering superclasses for tests ## requiring Spring contexts Package org.springframework.web * fixed "createRelative" implementation in Se 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 "exposeHelper" to MessageTag, to apply JavaScript escaping to output texts * added EscapeBodyTag class aka "spring:escapeBody", allowing to HTML- and/or JavaScript-escape enclosed body content * added JavaScriptUtils

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, SPR-11520, SPR-11606, SPR-11720, SPR-9274) 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 exploits via system identifier in DTD declaration (SPR-11768) fixed Access Denied exception within Spring MVC application on WebSphere 8.x (SPR-11758) fixed servlet 3 multipart parameter binding on Weblogic12c

## SPRING FRAMEWORK CHANGELOG http://www.springframework.org Changes in version 2.5.6.SEC03 (2011-09-06) Package org.springframework.web * added support for web.xml context-param "springJspExpressionSupport" SqlTypeValue * SQLErrorCodesFactory always loads its "sql-error-codes.xml" files from Spring's class loader (-> static singleton) * added "transientDataAccessResourceCodes" instance in the Quartz SchedulerRepository anymore $ ^{*} $ SchedulerFactoryBean does not expose the Spring-created/managed Scheduler to the Quartz SchedulerRepository anymore $ ^{*} $ introduced SchedulerAccessorBean

# SPRING FRAMEWORK CHANGELOG http://www.springframework.org Changes in version 2.0.4 (2007-04-10) Package org.springframework.aop * AbstractAutoProxyCreator caches advice information per bean, for efficient creating an independent aspect instance on every invocation * revised AspectJProxyFactory to avoid "spring-beans" dependencies, using SimpleMetadataAwareAspectInstanceFactory now * AbstractAspectJAdvice on * "tx:advice" expects that the XML parser might not expose the defaults defined in "spring-tx-2.0.xsd" (e.g. on Resin) Package org.springframework.util * ObjectUtils's "nullS