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elfwyn
elfwyn

Reputation: 568

Will Spring 3.5 abandon IoC or XML Bean Configurations?

I have heard that Spring - after establishing annotations with version 2 - might be abandoning IoC and XML bean definitions altogether in Spring version 3.5.

Is that a known fact or nonsense?

update

My colleague is pretty sure he was told by a spring instructor that as of Spring 3.5 annotation style progamming would be focused on exclusively. (If that would mean desupporting the older approaches I do not know)

Since that information is 1-2 years old it might be outdated allready though.

(changed Spring v4 to v3.5 with this edit)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 356

Answers (1)

Bozho
Bozho

Reputation: 597076

I'd say it's nonsense (though I've never heard any plans about spring 4)

  • IoC is a concept behind spring, related to "dependency injection", so that's perhaps a term misunderstanding
  • XML - frameworks like CDI that don't use XML have plugins that enable XML configuration because in some scenarios it is the better approach. For example for establishing configurations in the project. I don't think spring will abandon such a rich xml support (and break backward compatibility completely)

Upvotes: 4

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