Tag Archive for 'rc2'

One Last Call before 2.0 Final

Published by Christian Dupuis 1 year, 5 months ago in Journal. 11 Comments

Before we all head into the week of SpringOne, we are pleased to announce that the second and last release candidate of Spring IDE 2.0 is available. As usual the release is available immediately form our developer update site.

Please don’t forget: This is our last chance to get things straight before we are going Final. Therefore take some time for testing and provide feedback on any errors, bugs or problems you might find.

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I’ll be giving a talk about Spring IDE 2.0 at SpringOne. Although this is the last talk at the conference, Torsten and I hope to see you all to celebrate the release.

Last Minute Features for 2.0

Published by Christian Dupuis 1 year, 5 months ago 0 Comments

Due to a bug in one of Spring IDE’s validation rule that was fixed post-RC1 and a small glitch in Spring’s AOP namespace handler implementation, our latest nightly build ships a Spring 2.1 OSGi bundle. Therefore we could enable the support for two additional features that were already implemented.

The AOP feature now supports Spring 2.1’s new bean(<name pattern>) pointcut primitive that enables you to specifiy a certain bean or a set of beans for pointcut matching. For example the pointcut definition

<aop:pointcut expression="bean(serviceBean)" />

would only match on a bean named serviceBean. Certainly you can combine the bean pointcut primitive with any other primitive that is supported by Spring. It even works for @AspectJ-style aspects.

The second and last new feature - we are now feature complete for the 2.0 stream - is support for <context:component-scan />. Read Mark’s blog for more information on this new feature. Beans created by the class path scanning infrastructure are recognized by Spring IDE and handled as normal beans; though they are visually marked with an @ icon decoration.