Table 5.1. Functional comparison table of S2Container-1.2 and S2Container-2.0

Function	S2Container-1.2	S2Container-2.0
Property Injection	none	avilable
Setter Injection	available	available
Constructor Injection	available	available
Method Injection	InitMethod, DestroyMethod	InitMethod
Instance Type	singleton, prototype, outer, request, session	singleton, prototype
Binding Type	auto, constructor, property, none	auto, none
Annotation	extension Annotation, annotation function of S2ContainerApplicationContextclass	unifies to seasar\util\Annotation class
Attached Interceptor	S2Container_TraceInterceptor S2Container_MockInterceptor S2Container_DelegateInterceptor S2Container_PrototypeDelegateInterceptor S2Container_ThrowsInterceptor S2Container_TraceThrowsInterceptor S2Container_InterceptorChain	seasar\aop\interceptor\TraceInterceptor seasar\aop\interceptor\MockInterceptor seasar\aop\interceptor\InterceptorChain
Default Pointcut	All the public methods of implemented Interface. Nothing when Interceptor is not implemented at all.	All the public methods of implemented Interface. If Interface is not implemented at all, they are all the methods which the class implements. However, the method from which a name begins in set, get, and is is excepted.
Setup of Pointcut	More than one can be specified by comma separated values. (example .+Dao,.+Service)	Single specification (example /.+Dao$/ )
ClassLoader	S2ContainerClassLoader, S2ContainerApplicationContext class	seasar\util\ClassLoader class
Singleton S2Container function	S2Container_SingletonS2containerFactory class	Singleton S2Cotainer function of S2ApplicationContext class
Log function	available	available
Cache function of S2Container	availavle	none
Cache function of S2AOP	availavle	availavle
Automatic registration function of component	Automatic registration function of component as expanded functions, import function of S2ContainerApplicationContext	unifies to import function of S2ApplicationContext class
Automatic registration function of Aspect	Automatic registration function of Aspect as expanded functions, registerAspect function of S2ContainerApplicationContext	unifies to registerAspect function of S2ApplicationContext class
The registration name of component	component name, class name	component name, class name with namespace, class name, class name which first letter is lowercased
Setup of Environment	availavle	none
S2ApplicationContext::registerAspect method arguments	1st : component pattern 2nd : Interceptor 3rd : Pointcut	1nd : Interceptor 2st : component pattern (optional) 3rd : Pointcut (optional) And return value is a instance of AspectInfoDef class.