Upgrade to Spring Framework 7

[arey]

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• From Spring Framework 6.2 to 7.0
• Spring Framework 7.0.0-M3 Available Now

[Isaac-Andradee]

So basically, will the main branch be merged with some configuration files from the javaConfig branch due to the deprecation of the <mvc:* namespace for XML configurations that comes with this update (7.0.0) ? Or will the XML configuration be kept?

[arey]

Good catch @Isaac-Andradee:

The <mvc:* XML configuration namespace for Spring MVC is now deprecated in favor of the Java configuration variant. There are no plans yet for removing it completely, but XML configuration will not be updated to follow the Java configuration model. Other namespaces (like ) are NOT deprecated.

I haven't thought about it yet. Maybe we could switch XML and JavaConfig: confine XML syntax to a dedicated branch?

[Isaac-Andradee]

Sounds good, @arey .