Maintain a stable version for the production environment.
Merge branch 'dubbo-2.4.x' of https://github.com/alibaba/dubbo.git
Docs: http://alibaba.github.io/dubbo-doc-static/Home-zh.htm

Changes:
1. Maven code refactoring to make it can be successfully compiled and easier to understand.
2. Only to update the pom version of dependency, no changes to a line of source code.
3. Removed the internal jar dependencies of alibaba, and will not transitive dependencies of spring.
4. Optimized dubbo-admin and dubbo-monitor merged into dubbo-ops, and using the standard java web structure.
5. Optimized dubbo-demo-provider and dubbo-demo-consumer.


Quick Start:

  Export remote service:

    <bean id="barService" class="com.foo.BarServiceImpl" />
    <dubbo:service interface="com.foo.BarService" ref="barService" />

  Refer remote service:

    <dubbo:reference id="barService" interface="com.foo.BarService" />
    <bean id="barAction" class="com.foo.BarAction">
        <property name="barService" ref="barService" />
    </bean>

For more, please refer to: http://dubbo.io


Add in pom.xml:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.github.linpn</groupId>
        <artifactId>dubbo</artifactId>
        <version>2.4.16</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>