In his talk “Spring Framework 4.0 – The Next Generation,” Sam Brannen gave an overview of the new features of Spring 4.0 (slides on slideshare).
Spring, which has moved to http://spring.io/, is going to version 4 which means they add support for Java SE 8 and Java EE 7.
As a Spring developer, this means better Groovy support, being able to use lambda expressions and method references in Spring callbacks, support for “JSR-310 Date-Time types for data binding & formatting, a new @Conditional mechanism for bean definitions, & a new WebSocket endpoint model.”
Things that I took home from this talk:
- Spring Boot is a new project to make it easier to set up “Spring-powered, production-grade applications and services with absolute minimum fuss.”
- @Lazy is now supported to annotate the place where a bean is injected (formerly, you could only use it to make it lazy at the definition)
- There is a new API for messaging with support for WebSockets. In this context, you may want to have a look at stomp “the Simple (or Streaming) Text Orientated Messaging Protocol.”.
- Spring 4 supports Java EE 6 through 7 and SE 6 through 8
- Repeatable annotations will make code more compact
The slides should appear soon on slideshare/sbrannen.
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