Spring Framework 4.1 GA is released with major features

Spring Framework 4.1 (GA) is released with major features and improvements. The Spring 4.1 includes many new features and major improvements.

Spring Framework 4.1 GA is released with major features

Spring Framework 4.1 is available

Spring 4.1 is the major release of the Spring Framework with addition of many new major features and lots of improvements. After the intense development of the release candidates the Spring Framework available.

Here in this article we will discuss the new features and improvements of the Spring Framework.

Here are the new features of the Spring 4.1:

  • Annotations for the JMS listener methods added
  • The Comprehensive support for the JCache (through JSR-107) annotations
  • Spring 4.1 supports the easy and flexible resolution and transformation of static web resources used in the project
  • In the MVC views you can now use the declarative resolution, Groovy markup templates, Jackson's JsonView
  • There is refinements do top the WebSocket scope, SockJS client support, WebSocket stats
  • Performance improvement in SpEL compiler mode and  the concurrency fine-tuning across the container

Spring Framework 4.1 comes with many enhancements:

  • For the nested fields the direct binding support with auto-growing feature added
  • Java 8's Optional can be used for injection points and MVC handler parameters
  • The standard @Priority annotation for dependency ordering and selection support is also available in Spring 4.1
  • Annotated @Lookup methods enhancements
  • Declarative SQL scripts
  • Programmatic transactions in the TestContext framework
  • Enhanced Hibernate JPA setup with the isolation levels and discovery of managed packages

The minimum software requirement for using Spring 4.1 is   Java 6+, Servlet 2.5+, JPA 2.0+ .

Check more tutorials of the Spring Framework.

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  2. Spring Framework Part III
  3. Spring supports remoting for six different RPC models:
  4. An introduction to spring framework
  5. The Complete Spring Tutorial
  6. What is Spring?
  7. Inheritance in Spring
  8. Spring Injection Example
  9. Spring Batch Example
  10. Spring Hello World Application
  11. Spring Download - Downloading and Installing Spring Framework
  12. Spring Framework Install
  13. init Method in Spring
  14. Bean life cycle in spring
  15. Calling Constructor in Spring
  16. Spring 3.0 Tutorials with example code
  17. Learn Features of Spring 3.0
  18. Develop Hello World example using Spring 3.0 Framework
  19. The @configuration annotation example in Spring 3.0 Framework
  20. Spring asm Dependency
  21. Spring cglib2
  22. Spring MVC, Spring MVC Module Tutorial
  23. How Spring MVC Module Works
  24. Spring MVC Controller hierarchy
  25. Getting started with the Spring MVC framework.
  26. Spring MVC Hello World Example
  27. Tags in Spring MVC
  28. Spring MVC Say Hello Example
  29. Spring MVC Login Example
  30. Spring 2.5 MVC User Registration Example
  31. AbstractController example
  32. Controller Interface example in Spring 2.5 MVC. Learn how to create and run the example.
  33. ParameterizableViewController
  34. MultiActionController example in
  35. Simple Form Controlle Example
  36. AbstractWizardFormCOntroller Example
  37. UrlFileNameViewController Example
  38. Spring 2.5 MVC File Upload
  39. BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping example in Spring 2.5 Web MVC framework
  40. chainingviewresolvers