We are excited to announce the complete v5.0.0 release of mini-spring!
This version marks the completion of the core framework. It provides a fully functional, lightweight Spring-like framework designed specifically for learning and understanding the internal mechanisms of Spring.
🚀 Key Features
Core & IoC Container
- Implemented core
BeanFactoryandApplicationContextarchitectures. - Complete Bean lifecycle management, including initialization,
Awareinterfaces,BeanPostProcessor,BeanFactoryPostProcessor, and destruction. - Supported Dependency Injection (DI) via constructors and properties.
- Resolved circular dependency issues using the three-level cache mechanism.
- Implemented resource loading and XML/Annotation-based Bean definition parsing.
- Added support for
FactoryBean.
AOP (Aspect-Oriented Programming)
- Implemented AOP proxying using JDK Dynamic Proxies and CGLIB.
- Supported method matchers, Pointcut expressions, and Advisors.
- Seamless integration of AOP proxies into the Bean lifecycle via auto-proxy creators.
Context & Event Mechanisms
- Integrated the Application Event mechanism (
ApplicationEvent,ApplicationListener,ApplicationEventMulticaster). - Supported property placeholders (
PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer) and@Valueannotations. - Added package scanning functionality for component registration.
📝 Notes
This release is highly recommended for developers who want to study the core source code design and implementation details of the Spring Framework in a simplified, step-by-step manner.