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 toResourceBundleViewResolver
)