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Interesting read about Spring Framework 4.0

Groovy/Grails has really spoiled developers like us. Working in Java with core Spring libraries seems to be a bitter pill these days. Though we can configure Groovy classes as beans in Spring it only looks like a plugin in the entire application built using Java.

Thanks to SpringSource, the plans for Spring Framework 4.0 has some good news for developers. To quote one of their recent blog posts,

Configuring and implementing Spring-style applications using Groovy 2:
Groovy-based bean definitions; Groovy as the language of choice for an entire app

An interesting news for Java developers, is the support for Java 8 features like lambda expressions(.NET developers, are you listening???) in Spring 4.0.

You can read the complete post from http://blog.springsource.org/2013/01/16/next-stop-spring-framework-4-0/

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