Spring IO community has announced its release of Spring Framework 4.2. There is no great or major features added as part of this release. This release is mainly for refining the existing features and minor new features. The following are the list of new features added as part of this release. In our earlier articles […]
Spring 4 REST Example
This tutorial provides a simple example for writing the Spring MVC REST services using the Spring 4 APIs. We have written several articles about the spring 4 features in our previous articles. The REST implementation on Spriing 4 also very much similiar to the previous releases. Here I have provided the sample source code what […]
Spring 4 Tutorial
This page is regularly updated with the latest information about the Spring 4 framework. It is the most recent stable release for the production applications. Please bookmark this page to have up-to-date information on Spring Framework 4.0 happenings. If you want to add Spring 4 related links or information here, please send to krishnas at […]
Spring Framework 4.0 Release and Features
It is finally here!!. On 12-December-2013, Spring IO has officially announced that Spring Framework 4.0 GA is available for the production use. Why there is lot of things to talk about Spring 4.0?. It is the major release after Spring 3.0 which has been released on 2009. Also Spring team has transformed to Spring IO […]
@ControllerAdvice Improvements in Spring 4.0
In my earlier article I have explained about the usage of @ControllerAdvice which is introduced from the Spring 3.2 release. It is special type of @Component to declare the global exceptions handler. When you create a class with @ControllerAdvice and then write few methods with the @ExceptionHandler annotations, any exception thrown in the application will be […]
Spring 4.0 Environment Setup
This tutorial explains how to setup your environment for working with the Spring 4.0 examples. Instead of explaining this process in every article, I would write it here so that this tutorial will be linked from the all Spring 4.0 tutorials for the setup reference. Spring 4.0 Maven Dependency At this time of writing this […]
RestController Annotation in Spring 4
In this tutorial I am going to explain one of the new spring annotation @RestController introduced as part Spring 4 release. The spring 4 version comes up with lot of exciting new features. One of the API improvements is new RestController annotation which is inherited from the @Controller annotation. If you are interested in receiving […]
Spring Framework 4.0 RC1 Released
Spring Framework 4.0 Release Candidate 1 is released by Spring IO this week. Earlier they have announced that Spring 4.0 is due to the release in October 2014. However, in the latest blog post they have indicated that it will be available by December 2014. The last addition of new features with this release candidate […]
Conditional Annotation in Spring 4.0
In this article I shall throw some light on one of the new features of Spring 4, Conditional Annotation Type. In the earlier versions of Spring you could handle conditions as below: In Spring with versions earlier to 3.1, you had to use Spring Expression Language (SPeL). With Spring 3.1, a new feature called profiles was introduced which […]
Spring 4.0 Features At a Glance
If you remember, Spring 3.0 released nearly four years back. There is no other major release from the Spring Framework, only the incremental release like 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3. Now they are breaking the ice with Spring Framework 4.0 announcement. It is announced that the new version would be released any time between September or […]