Posted by Vincent Partington in the early evening: January 1st, 2009
Spring 2.0 and later versions offer schema based configuration that allows us to have a more expressive and concise way to specify our configuration. For example, Spring Security 1.0 configuration used to be quite hairy, but became a lot simpler with Spring 2.0.
One disadvantage is that the documentation of the namespaces is not as good as that for regular beans. For regular beans, I can have a look at Javadoc, while for the namespaces that come with Spring the documentation is not up to the same level of detail. Until a Javadoc-like tool can generate this documentation from the schemas, the best documentation is the schemas themselves.
One little problem
But ignoring that issue, I recently ran into a very practical problem with using schema based configuration in combination with a PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer.
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