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I am clearly a big spring fan. I like most of the new stuff which went into 2.0 but after seing two blogs which advertised the new properties shorthand notation for beans, which is like this:

   <bean id="foo" class="com.habuma.foobar.Foo"
        p:bar-ref="bar"
        p:baz="42" />

I must say, i wont use it because it looks ugly. Its in the same visual comfort league as generics syntax in java. Sorry, i will stay with the little more verbose version:

   <bean id="foo" class="com.habuma.foobar.Foo">
      <property name="bar" ref="bar" />
      <property name="baz" value=42" />
    </bean>