Next stop - Spring 4.0

Spring will reach to 4.0 at the end of 2013. One of highlight features is new features of Java SE 8.0 and Java EE 7.0 will be supported. Included Lambda, JSR310 Date and Time, JMS 2.0, JPA 2.1, Bean Validation 1.1, Servlet 3.1, JCache and JSR356 WebSocket support. Another highlight feature is you will be able to write Spring configuration with Groovy-style.