Spring 2.0 released
“Spring 2.0 was released today”:http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=42460. For more info, read the link. I guess the real question that should be asked is whether it makes sense to upgrade or wait for the first Spring 2.0 books to come out and show us how it should be done.
“The link to the actual article on the Spring website”:http://www.springframework.org/go-2.0.
Is spring an MVC framework? Is it only for web developement?
The Spring Framework is an Inversion of Control (IoC) container which allows for application to be put together using Dependency Injection. Within Spring there is an MVC framework called SpringMVC, however, this is only a small part of the Spring Framework and is not even a part of Spring Core, it is kinda like an add on if you want to use it.
Spring can be used for any kind of application although it was designed to make working with J2EE–Session Beans, MDBs, etc–a lot simpler and to make J2EE testable.