From http://ibatis.apache.org:

(February 11, 2007) The votes are in an iBATIS for Java 2.3.0 is promoted to Apache general availability status. This release includes several bug fixes and enhancements. Additionally, this release offers new support for local caching of prepared statements. Caching prepared statements can lead to significant performance improvements in many environments.

The Java DAO framework has been removed from iBATIS as of release 2.3.0. We heartily recommend that you consider using the Spring Framework for all your DAO needs! Spring offers great support for iBATIS.

The paginated list methods have been deprecated with this release. The methods were confusing to many users and often misused. We suggest using native database support for paging, or that you use the query methods with skip and max settings.