SPRING FRAMEWORK 3.0.

1 (February 2010)
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http://www.springframework.org
1. INTRODUCTION
Spring Framework 3.0 is the next generation of the 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 previo
us Spring
generations. Furthermore, the jar file names follow bundle repository convention
s 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 mate
rial
will be provided as separate downloads.