<p dir="auto"><strong><a href="https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=ndeloof" rel="nofollow">nicolas de loof</a></strong> opened <strong><a href="https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-1936?redirect=false" rel="nofollow">SPR-1936</a></strong> and commented</p>
<p dir="auto">On Java 1.3/1.4, commons-attributes can be use to pre-java5 meta-data development.</p>
<p dir="auto">commons-attributes uses a pre-compiler that creates new classes to collect annotations.</p>
<p dir="auto">Backport175 (<a href="http://backport175.codehaus.org/Overview" rel="nofollow">http://backport175.codehaus.org/Overview</a>) uses bytecode enhancement to add annotations to java1.3/1.4 .class files. Those meta-data can the be read at runtime as java5-compliant annotation (on a java5+ JRE) or using a simple backport175 API on java1.3/1.4.</p>
<p dir="auto">Using Spring Attributes abstraction, it sounds easy to support backport175. The only difficulty I can notice is that backport175 uses interfaces to define annotations, so it may require to duplicate any existing Spring attributes (commons-attributes attributes may implements backport interfaces for consitency).</p>
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<p dir="auto"><strong><a href="https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=cbeams" rel="nofollow">Chris Beams</a></strong> opened <strong><a href="https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-5504?redirect=false" rel="nofollow">SPR-5504</a></strong> and commented</p>
<p dir="auto">Currently, configuring tiles is somewhat cumbersome / low-level, in that users must define a UrlBasedViewResolver bean and provide a viewClass property of type TilesView.</p>
<p dir="auto">Better would be to provide a concrete TilesViewResolver implementation for convenience.</p>
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<li><a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="398092696" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/issues/10079" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/spring-projects/spring-framework/issues/10079/hovercard" href="https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/issues/10079">#10079</a> Make Tiles 2 easier to configure in Spring MVC (<em><strong>"duplicates"</strong></em>)</li>
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