SPRING FRAMEWORK 3.0 (December 2009) ------------------------------------ http://www.springframework.org 1. INTRODUCTION Spring Framework 3.0 is the next generation of Spring: fully Java 5 based, EL enabled, REST enabled, and with support for JSR-330 (Dependency Injection) and JSR-303 (Bean Validation). 2. RELEASE NOTES This release comes with complete reference documentation. For further details, consult the provided javadoc for specific packages and classes. 3. DISTRIBUTION JAR FILES The Spring Framework module jar files can be found in the 'dist' directory. Note that this release does not contain a 'spring.jar' file anymore, in contrast to previous Spring generations. Furthermore, the jar file names follow bundle repository conventions now. 4. GETTING STARTED Please consult the blog examples at http://blog.springsource.com as well as the sections of interest in the reference documentation. Sample applications and related material will be provided as separate downloads.