spring-framework/spring-framework-reference
Chris Beams b4fea47d5c Introduce FeatureSpecification support
Introduce FeatureSpecification interface and implementations

    FeatureSpecification objects decouple the configuration of
    spring container features from the concern of parsing XML
    namespaces, allowing for reuse in code-based configuration
    (see @Feature* annotations below).

    * ComponentScanSpec
    * TxAnnotationDriven
    * MvcAnnotationDriven
    * MvcDefaultServletHandler
    * MvcResources
    * MvcViewControllers

Refactor associated BeanDefinitionParsers to delegate to new impls above

    The following BeanDefinitionParser implementations now deal only
    with the concern of XML parsing.  Validation is handled by their
    corresponding FeatureSpecification object.  Bean definition creation
    and registration is handled by their corresponding
    FeatureSpecificationExecutor type.

    * ComponentScanBeanDefinitionParser
    * AnnotationDrivenBeanDefinitionParser (tx)
    * AnnotationDrivenBeanDefinitionParser (mvc)
    * DefaultServletHandlerBeanDefinitionParser
    * ResourcesBeanDefinitionParser
    * ViewControllerBeanDefinitionParser

Update AopNamespaceUtils to decouple from XML (DOM API)

    Methods necessary for executing TxAnnotationDriven specification
    (and eventually, the AspectJAutoProxy specification) have been
    added that accept boolean arguments for whether to proxy
    target classes and whether to expose the proxy via threadlocal.

    Methods that accepted and introspected DOM Element objects still
    exist but have been deprecated.

Introduce @FeatureConfiguration classes and @Feature methods

    Allow for creation and configuration of FeatureSpecification objects
    at the user level.  A companion for @Configuration classes allowing
    for completely code-driven configuration of the Spring container.

    See changes in ConfigurationClassPostProcessor for implementation
    details.

    See Feature*Tests for usage examples.

    FeatureTestSuite in .integration-tests is a JUnit test suite designed
    to aggregate all BDP and Feature* related tests for a convenient way
    to confirm that Feature-related changes don't break anything.
    Uncomment this test and execute from Eclipse / IDEA. Due to classpath
    issues, this cannot be compiled by Ant/Ivy at the command line.

Introduce @FeatureAnnotation meta-annotation and @ComponentScan impl

    @FeatureAnnotation provides an alternate mechanism for creating
    and executing FeatureSpecification objects.  See @ComponentScan
    and its corresponding ComponentScanAnnotationParser implementation
    for details.  See ComponentScanAnnotationIntegrationTests for usage
    examples

Introduce Default[Formatting]ConversionService implementations

    Allows for convenient instantiation of ConversionService objects
    containing defaults appropriate for most environments.  Replaces
    similar support originally in ConversionServiceFactory (which is now
    deprecated). This change was justified by the need to avoid use
    of FactoryBeans in @Configuration classes (such as
    FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean). It is strongly preferred
    that users simply instantiate and configure the objects that underlie
    our FactoryBeans. In the case of the ConversionService types, the
    easiest way to do this is to create Default* subtypes. This also
    follows convention with the rest of the framework.

Minor updates to util classes

    All in service of changes above. See diffs for self-explanatory
    details.

    * BeanUtils
    * ObjectUtils
    * ReflectionUtils
2011-02-08 14:42:33 +00:00
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css/html added some styling and color coded syntax highlighting to beans chapter 2009-04-07 16:54:36 +00:00
images added info about the new web-struts module 2009-11-12 19:11:46 +00:00
src Introduce FeatureSpecification support 2011-02-08 14:42:33 +00:00
styles html multi-page doc now only generates files per chapter consistent with Spring 2.5 2009-12-15 00:18:46 +00:00
.project Added Eclipse project settings to the reference documentation so that the documentation can be more easily edited and built within Eclipse. 2009-04-30 00:59:09 +00:00
build.xml Added the Spring Framework reference documentation 2009-03-18 20:00:49 +00:00
ivy.xml Publishing license and notice files 2010-08-23 13:17:31 +00:00