New Features of Spring 3.0

Spring v3.0 brings with itself a whole new world of possibilities and features. Spring MVC, the web component of Spring framework, offers a rich and sturdy platform for creating web applications. This framework is designed  in such a way that allows users to experiment with a highly configurable environment. Since Spring can integrate seamlessly with other frameworks, such as Java Server Faces, Struts, and WebWork among others, users can easily define and instruct Spring on which web framework to use. Also, it not tightly coupled with JSP or servlets to render Views to clients. Therefore, the new version integrates with other View technologies such as PDF, Excel and Velocity quite easily.     

Top 5 Features of Spring 3.0

A SpringSource Certified Spring Professional can enjoy the following improved features of Spring 3.0.

1.   The latest version now comes with configuration support for Java 5. Java features including annotations, generics, and varargs among others can now be used in Spring 3.

2.      A new expression language has been introduced - SpEL or Spring Expression Language. It can be used for Bean definitions in XML and Annotations.

3.      Support for REST web services is also available now.

4.      Support for annotation based data formatting that allows easy conversion of date and currency formats.

5.      Support for JPA 2.0

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