<section xml:id="migration-3.2-ehcache-support">

<title>EHCache support moved to spring-context-support</title>

<para>Along with Spring's new JCache support, the EHCache support classes in the

<literal>org.springframework.cache.ehcache</literal> package moved from the

<literal>spring-context</literal> module to <literal>spring-context-support</literal>.</para>

</section>

<section xml:id="new-in-3.2-meta-annotations">

<title>Using meta-annotations for injection points and for bean definition methods</title>

<para>As of 3.2, Spring allows for <interfacename>@Autowired</interfacename> and

<interfacename>@Value</interfacename> to be used as meta-annotations,

e.g. to build custom injection annotations in combination with specific qualifiers.

Analogously, you may build custom <interfacename>@Bean</interfacename> definition

annotations for <interfacename>@Configuration</interfacename> classes,

e.g. in combination with specific qualifiers, @Lazy, @Primary, etc.</para>

</section>

<section xml:id="new-in-3.2-jcache">

<title>Initial support for JCache 0.5</title>

<para>Spring provides a CacheManager adapter for JCache, building against the JCache 0.5

preview release. Full JCache support is coming next year, along with Java EE 7 final.</para>

</section>

</section>

<section xml:id="new-in-3.2-concurrency">

<title>Refined concurrency within the framework</title>

<para>Spring Framework 3.2 includes fine-tuning of concurrent data structures

in many parts of the framework, minimizing locks and generally improving the

arrangements for highly concurrent creation of scoped/prototype beans.</para>

<section xml:id="new-in-3.2-java7">

<title>Refined Java SE 7 support</title>

<para>Last but not least, Spring Framework 3.2 comes with refined Java 7 support

within the framework as well as through upgraded third-party dependencies:

specifically, CGLIB 3.0, ASM 4.0 (both of which come as inlined dependencies with

Spring now) and AspectJ 1.7 support (next to the existing AspectJ 1.6 support).</para>

</section>