TS-5225 Spring Framework 3.0 (Fun with Rod)

Rod's always interesting, if egotistical and opinionated. He's a smart guy, and will remind you of that. I had the pleasure of dining with him a few years back, and some of the things he said as absolutes were debatable.

Highlights:

• Spring 3.0 is JDK 5+ only
• Eliminate XML config files as much as possible - annotations, expression language
• Extensive generification
• EL - inject stuff from system properties (this is a good thing??)
• REST support!!!
• Easy annotations to get stuff off the request - for example,
  public Reward show(@RequestHeader("region") long regionId, @CookieValue("lanuage" String langId)
• Spring and Flex (SpringFlex)
• Configuration injection looks pretty cool (type-safe, compile-time errors, allows inheritance of configurations)
• Spring Roo - Round-trip code generator, allows modification outside of Roo (think of Grails)