SPRING FRAMEWORK 3.0 (December 2009)
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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 previous Spring
generations. Furthermore, the jar file names follow bundle repository conventions 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 material
will be provided as separate downloads.
