The Spring 2.5 framework for Java development is moving forward. A release candidate was published this week, according to Juergen Hoeller, a co-founder of the Spring Framework, in the Interface21 Team blog. Interface21 oversees development of Spring.“Spring 2.5 is in many ways the release that completes Spring 2.0’s mission: providing the most flexible and most comprehensive configuration model for both Java 1.4 and Java 5. Spring 2.5 focuses on particularly comprehensive support for Java 5, introducing various further annotations options,” Hoeller said. Comprehensive support is featured for configuration annotations in application components, Johnson noted. Web controller support also is highlighted. Software Development