handling) * "contextConfigLocation" params in "web.xml" support "${...}" style placeholders for system properties * deprecated BindUtils and BindInitializer in package "web.bind" in favor of direct S supports reading from SAX InputSource (useful to pass in XML system id or java.io.Reader) * DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser supports system property placeholders in import paths: e.g. "file:${user.dir}/ctx HibernateTransactionManager and SessionFactoryUtils to adapt to Hibernate 3.1's changed Session management * added "enableFilter" operation to HibernateOperations/HibernateTemplate, for parameterizing

supports reading from SAX InputSource (useful to pass in XML system id or java.io.Reader) * DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser supports system property placeholders in import paths: e.g. "file:${user.dir}/ctx HibernateTransactionManager and SessionFactoryUtils to adapt to Hibernate 3.1's changed Session management * added "enableFilter" operation to HibernateOperations/HibernateTemplate, for parameterizing yFactoryBean, to be turned off for lazy init Package org.springframework.samples * fixed Image Database to have its NativeJdbcExtractor defined for C3P0 (applied when using OracleLobHandler) Package

ion in case of any circular reference * ResourceEntityResolver catches any kind of Exception in system root URL check (in particular AccessControlException) * DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser trims whitespace PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver ignores classpath roots that cannot be resolved as jar or in file system * PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver properly handles jar file roots returned by the ClassLoader in seconds within the annotation Package org.springframework.util * ClassUtils falls back to the system class loader if the thread context class loader is inaccessible * added "containsWhitespace", "trimAllWhitespace"

handling) * "contextConfigLocation" params in "web.xml" support "${...}" style placeholders for system properties * deprecated BindUtils and BindInitializer in package "web.bind" in favor of direct S supports reading from SAX InputSource (useful to pass in XML system id or java.io.Reader) * DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser supports system property placeholders in import paths: e.g. "file:${user.dir}/ctx HibernateTransactionManager and SessionFactoryUtils to adapt to Hibernate 3.1's changed Session management * added "enableFilter" operation to HibernateOperations/HibernateTemplate, for parameterizing

PetClinic, exported via Spring's MBeanExporter * dropped unmaintained alternative scenarios (with database access) from Countries sample application * revised all XML application context definition files * added demonstration of JMX export to PetClinic's JDBC version: exposure of the CachingClinic management interface * added demonstration of JMX export to PetClinic's JDBC version: exposure of a CallMonitor for merged properties too * ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource accepts non-refreshable (non-file-system) resources even if "cacheSeconds" >0 Package org.springframework.core * PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver

yFactoryBean, to be turned off for lazy init Package org.springframework.samples * fixed Image Database to have its NativeJdbcExtractor defined for C3P0 (applied when using OracleLobHandler) Package springframework.util * Log4jConfigurer resolves ${...} placeholders in Log4J config locations as system properties * factored out ConcurrencyThrottleSupport base class from ConcurrencyThrottleInterceptor * added "searchSystemEnvironment" bean property to PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer, for checking "System.getenv()" too * refined "toString()" implementations of Root/ChildBeanDefinition to expose more

* added demonstration of JMX export to PetClinic's JDBC version: exposure of the CachingClinic management interface * added demonstration of JMX export to PetClinic's JDBC version: exposure of a CallMonitor for merged properties too * ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource accepts non-refreshable (non-file-system) resources even if "cacheSeconds" >0 Package org.springframework.core * PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver removed "optimisticLockingFailureCodes" from SQLErrorCodes and sql-error- codes.xml (never thrown by database itself) * added "deadlockLoserCodes" and "cannotSerializeTransactionCodes" to SQLErrorCodes and

* added "searchSystemEnvironment" bean property to PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer, for checking "System.getenv()" too * refined "toString()" implementations of Root/ChildBeanDefinition to expose more PetClinic, exported via Spring's MBeanExporter * dropped unmaintained alternative scenarios (with database access) from Countries sample application * revised all XML application context definition files * added demonstration of JMX export to PetClinic's JDBC version: exposure of the CachingClinic management interface * added demonstration of JMX export to PetClinic's JDBC version: exposure of a CallMonitor

PetClinic, exported via Spring's MBeanExporter * dropped unmaintained alternative scenarios (with database access) from Countries sample application * revised all XML application context definition files * added demonstration of JMX export to PetClinic's JDBC version: exposure of the CachingClinic management interface * added demonstration of JMX export to PetClinic's JDBC version: exposure of a CallMonitor for merged properties too * ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource accepts non-refreshable (non-file-system) resources even if "cacheSeconds" >0 Package org.springframework.core * PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver

autowiring for BeanPostProcessors!) * introduced C3P0 ComboPooledDataSource as connection pool for Image Database (to show an alternative to Commons DBCP) Package org.springframework.transaction * added Tra util * added ResourceUtils utility class, for resolving resource locations to files in the file system (without any logging) * Log4jConfigurer accepts a "classpath:" URL or a "file:" URL as location too not just a plain file path * Log4jConfigurer accepts config files that do not reside in the file system, as long as there is no refresh interval * fixed DefaultPropertiesPersister to correctly handle