specifying a value Package org.springframework.beans * added support for directly setting array, List and Map elements to BeanWrapperImpl * added support for fetching a Set element via an index to BeanWrapperImpl to the Set Iterator * removed BeanWrapperImpl's "invoke" method which lacked sophistication like support for overloaded methods * fixed BeanWrapperImpl's custom editor detection for indexed and mapped properties ignore directly registered singletons * CustomEditorConfigurer implements Ordered interface, to support ordered invocation of BeanFactoryPostProcessors * added "ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders" property

springframework.aop subpackages * moved internal class AopUtils from package aop.framework.support to aop.support, to avoid cyclic package dependencies * renamed AbstractPrototypeTargetSource to Abstra unbinding in case of JtaTransactionManager with flush failure im beforeCommit synchronization * added support for transaction-scoped Sessions with plain JTA or EJB CMT, without JtaTransactionManager being involved CosMultipartResolver throw MaxUploadSizeExceededException when appropriate * fixed HttpServletBean's support for required properties, renaming "setRequiredProperty" to "addRequiredProperty" * apply HandlerExceptionResolvers

for non- intrusive creation of prototype beans * added BeanDefinitionHolder class to beans.factory.support package, holding a BeanDefinition plus name and aliases * AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory detects on JDK 1.3 Package org.springframework.context * added ResourceMapFactoryBean class to context.support, for resolving properties into a Map with Resource values * fixed AbstractMessageSource's parent , thrown when a result was not of the expected size (e.g. <>1) * added DataAccessUtils class to support package, providing "uniqueResult" and "requiredUniqueResult" helper methods Package org.springframework

classloader resources are not on file system Package org.springframework.cache * added explicit support for EHCache via EhCacheManagerFactoryBean and EhCacheFactoryBean in the "ehcache" subpackage Package "getResource" implementation to correctly determine URL via Resource's "getURL" method * added full support for scoped attributes to MockPageContext, properly regarding request/session/application scope stance" methods in SimpleRemoteSlsbInvokerInterceptor Package org.springframework.jdbc * added support for SqlReturnType interface which allows us to return custom types from stored procedures * StatementCreatorUtils

"getType" method * moved "invokeJoinpointUsingReflection" method from aop.framework.AopProxyUtils to aop.support.AopUtils * JdkDynamicAopProxy handles "hashCode" method locally too, in addition to "equals" (mainly Commons Logging at debug level rather than to the console Package org.springframework.beans * added support for multi-dimensional collections to BeanWrapperImpl (e.g. "map[myKey][0]" or "map[myKey][0].name") Hibernate/Jdo/PersistenceBrokerTransactionObject into inner classes of HibernateTransactionManager and co * added support for pre-bound Sessions (e.g. OpenSessionInViewFilter/Interceptor) with JTA and TransactionManagerLookup

"codebaseUrl" property to HttpInvokerClientInterceptor, specifying a URL for dynamic class download * added support for dynamic class downloading to AbstractHttpInvokerRequestExecutor and its subclasses * added hooks offending page for global errors too * changed SimpleMappingExceptionResolver's "exceptionMappings" to support exception patterns (similar to rollback rules) * changed SimpleMappingExceptionResolver's "mappedHandlers" "getType" method * moved "invokeJoinpointUsingReflection" method from aop.framework.AopProxyUtils to aop.support.AopUtils * JdkDynamicAopProxy handles "hashCode" method locally too, in addition to "equals" (mainly

marked SqlMapDaoSupport and SqlMapClientDaoSupport as abstract classes (analogous to all other DAO support classes) * added "useTransactionAwareDataSource" flag to LocalSessionFactoryBean, with default false iBATIS SQL Maps 1.3 (SqlMap API) to SQL Maps 2.0 (SqlMapClient API) * reworked JPetStore's JAX-RPC support to avoid the RemoteOrderService RMI interface in favor of JAX-RPC dynamic calls Package org.springframework generic CookieGenerator from CookieLocaleResolver and CookieThemeResolver, adding cookie domain support * reworked BeanName/SimpleUrlHandlerMapping to prefer more specific mappings in case of overlapping

r, applies init and destruction callbacks to beans that implement the Servlet interface * added support for declarative configuration of exporter parameters to AbstractJasperReportsView * factored out marked SqlMapDaoSupport and SqlMapClientDaoSupport as abstract classes (analogous to all other DAO support classes) * added "useTransactionAwareDataSource" flag to LocalSessionFactoryBean, with default false iBATIS SQL Maps 1.3 (SqlMap API) to SQL Maps 2.0 (SqlMapClient API) * reworked JPetStore's JAX-RPC support to avoid the RemoteOrderService RMI interface in favor of JAX-RPC dynamic calls Package org.springframework

springframework.aop * added "getTargetClass" method to AopProxyUtils (factored out from the JMX support's AbstractMBeanInfoAssembler) Package org.springframework.beans * BeanWrapperImpl supports JDK 1 1.5's properties XML files, for files with ".xml" filename * added "enums" package, containing support for type-safe enums with code and label (working on JDK >= 1.3) * added "styler" package, containing property to LocalSessionFactoryBean, for Hibernate3's caching of parsed XML as bins * added dedicated support for Hibernate Annotation 3.0 beta 2: AnnotationSessionFactoryBean in "tiger" source tree * made

ConfigurableListableBeanFactory * reworked AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory's dependency exclusion check to support ignored dependency interfaces * AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory registers BeanFactoryAware as value as empty Collection Package org.springframework.ejb * adapted LocalSlsbInvokerInterceptor to support a local EJB that does not directly implement the business interface Package org.springframework methods to JdoOperations and JdoTemplate * added support for JDO2 "getObjectById", "detachCopy" and "attachCopy" to JdoOperations and JdoTemplate * added support for JDO2 single string queries and named queries