New Version of Spring Framework
One of the libraries that we've been using pretty extensively (see earlier post "Back to the Basics with Java") is Spring, and they just released a new milestone (M4). Upgrading required some minor rework in our app, but all the changes that were made in the framework were totally rational, so I didn't mind. All the JUnit tests pass for our app, so we're going to run with it for a while.
I stumbled on this release by visiting the home page, but I now see that this is a SourceForge project, and one of the (many) great things about being a SF project is they provide RSS feeds for project releases (example: Spring Framework Release RSS Feed). So that got me thinking to what we were talking about the other day about splicing feeds. It would be useful to have a spliced feed for all of the libraries that we employ in our app. If only Jakarta had feeds for their releases!