Webinar: Spring Framework 3.2 - Themes and Trends
summary
Spring Framework 3.2 ships Java 7–targeted builds and a new Gradle build, moves development to GitHub and an Artifactory feed, and adds first‑class asynchronous MVC using Servlet 3.0 async with controller return types Callable/DeferredResult so long‑polling and external‑thread completion avoid container threads; Spring MVC Test provides a MockMVC fluent API for server/client tests; community metrics show ~1,400 stars, ~600 forks and ~200 pull requests feeding changes; roadmap starts Spring 4.0 with Java 8/lambdas and broader Groovy, WebSocket and JCache support.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Webinar introduction
- 1:34Spring framework 3.2 overview
- 3:36Java 7 and build updates
- 6:19Meta-annotations evolution
- 10:20JCache and caching updates
- 12:31Spring MVC async processing
- 23:42Content negotiation
- 27:19Rest error reporting
- 29:42Matrix variables
- 32:07Testing improvements
- 39:44Community and contributions
- 54:48Spring framework 4.0 outlook
