2.0 of the Spring Framework has just gone live with it’s final release, after several months of development.
New and improved features worth checking out are across the board simplification of Spring configuration, which aims to be less verbose in this version, dynamic scripting language support, addition of a Portlet framework to the existing MVC framework, and integration with the EJB3.0 JPA API, amongst many other enhancements. Check the website for more information.