Question

has anyone been able to download the spring framework 3.0.0.M4 release from the spring source site… (or can you provide an alternative download page)?

http://www.springsource.org/download

am I missing something…, the site is giving me the runaround…

when i get to the “Spring Community Downloads” page and choose spring from the LHS menu… I get no download link…

Answer 1

If you are using maven, add this to your <repositories> in your pom.xml:

<repository>
  <id>spring-milestone</id>
  <name>Spring Portfolio Milestone Repository</name>
  <url>http://s3.amazonaws.com/maven.springframework.org/milestone</url>
</repository>

and declare your spring dependency like this:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <version>3.0.0.M4</version>
</dependency>

For others artifcats, use the Spring Maven artifact URL for browsing.

More on Spring’s maven repositories in this article.