SpringFramework.org has announced the availability of Release Candidate 1 of the new Spring Framework 2.5.
If you’re ready to dig into it, then check out the official Spring 2.5 RC1 Reference documentation, which is like a book in terms of quality and substance.
Here is a sample chapter book excerpt on a gentle introduction to the Spring Framework, as available in the newly published Building Spring 2 Enterprise Applications by i21 (founders/makers of Spring) as well as Bram Smeets and Seth Ladd.
The Spring Framework 2.x is quickly becoming the de-facto open source enterprise meta-framework for J2EE/Java EE and other enterprise developers. If you’re new to Spring or looking for any documentation on Spring 2…
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