Overview

For Spring Framework 5.3, we should consider deprecating rarely used bean definition variants.

Possible candidates for deprecation

Candidates listed here are up for discussion. No decisions have been made yet about the deprecation of the candidates.

Properties based

• PropertiesBeanDefinitionReader
• JdbcBeanDefinitionReader
• GenericPropertiesContextLoader
• ResourceBundleViewResolver
• XmlViewResolver (not property-based, but related to ResourceBundleViewResolver)