What is new in JAVA Spring 5 Framework?
The wait is over now! Spring 5 has been released after a couple of years with improvements and new structures.
Below are the key improvements:
Baseline upgrades
Your system must have JDK 8 and Java EE 7 to build and run Spring 5 application because previous versions are not supported anymore. Specifically, Java EE 7 includes below:
- Bean Validation 1.1
- JMS 2.0
- JAX-RS 2.0
- JPA 2.1
- Servlet 3.1
Minimum supported versions of various servers are as below:
- Undertow 1.4+
- Netty 4.1+
- Tomcat 8.5+
- Jetty 9.4+
- WildFly 10+
Reactive programming support/model
Reactive programming model is the most exhilarating features of Spring 5. Spring 5 is totally reactive and non-blocking; this stack is perfect for event style-looping that can scale with a limited number of threads.
Reactive HTTP and WebSocket clients are supported by the spring-webflux module. Spring 5.0 also provides support for reactive web apps running on servers, i.e. HTML, REST and WebSocket-Style interaction.
In spring-webflux there are two different programming models on the server-side:
- An annotation-based model: Build on reactive foundations and it is the latest alternative to Spring WebMVC.
- The Functional Web Framework: It is the alternative to the @Controller annotation-based programming model.
Testing improvements
JUnit 5 Jupiter is supported by Spring 5 so writing test and extensions can be carried out effortlessly.
Library Support
Below upgraded library versions are supported by Spring Framework 5.0:
- Hibernate 5.0+
- Netty 4.1+
- JDBC 4.0+
- OkHttp 3.x+
- EhCache 2.10+ / 3.0 GA
- Jackson 2.6+
- XmlUnit 2.x+
Discontinued Supports
Below are the discontinued supports by Spring 5:
- Guava
- JasperReports
- JDO
- Portlet
- Velocity
- XMLBeans
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