Web App Frameworks - Spring Framework 2.0 M1 released

Spring Framework 2.0 M1 has been released. This release marks the start of the next generation of Spring. New features include:

* simplified, extensible XML configuration
* new powerful Spring AOP features and AspectJ integration
* new asynchronous JMS containers enabling message-driven POJO's in the Spring container
* and much more

Spring 2.0 will remain 100% backwards compatible with Spring 1.2 and will run on Java 1.3 and upwards. Spring 2.0 uses XML Schema next to the classic DTD to support custom XML in the application context. The M1 release includes convenient XML tags for AOP, transaction configuration, JNDI lookup and loading properties files. The JPetstore sample application already includes some of these features and sample applications will be further upgraded in subsequent releases.
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