Getting started with Spring Framework: Migrations?

[Pete Letkeman]

Hello Ashish Sarin & J Sharma,

I suspect that there are many projects which use Spring versions prior to Spring 5.
What would be some if your recommendations on migrating from Spring 4.x to Spring 5?

[Ashish Sarin]

Hi Pete,

Whenever a new release happens you should read the release notes to find out what has changed since the last release, what things are no longer compatible, and so on.

regards
Ashish

[Pete Letkeman]

Okay thanks for your recommendations regarding this.

[meenakshi sundar]

This below recommendation is from the Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller

To a large degree, an upgrade from Spring Framework 3.2 (or earlier) to 4.0.1 should be as straightforward as a change of version numbers in your Maven POMs. Note that you may have to upgrade specific third-party dependencies to a recent enough version (e.g. Hibernate 3.6+, Quartz 1.8+, Jackson 1.8+, Tiles 2.2+), but other than that, you should be able to get all the benefits of the Spring 4 line with hopefully very little effort.

I hope this holds good for other versions as well.

Thanks
Sundar