Bootiful Spring Boot 3.4: Spring Framework
The Spring Framework 6.2 release notes provide a much more detailed look at all the new features. I won’t rehash all of them here, but here are some of the features that caught my eye:
- Improved generic type safety in auto wiring sorting.
- Smarter, more optimized Spring Expression Language expressions.
- More efficient handling of resources in web applications, as well as in the WebJars support.
- Refinements to Spring’s JMS support and STOMP-over-WebSocket support.
- Improved testing support with the new HTMLUnit dependency, AssertJ-style
MvcTester
for Spring MVC tests, and much improved mocked beans in tests. - Support the concept of
@Fallback
beans, essentially the mirror image of@Primary
beans. - Background bean initialization.
- Improved binding of data to constructors.
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