Question

I am starting out with Spring and I am reading Pro Spring 2.5. On page 17 they talk about Spring dependencies and I wonder if I need to add this myself in the POM, or does the dependency I have added below do this? Such as CGLib, dom4j etc?

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
        <version>3.1.1.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>

Answer 1

You shouldn’t need to. Maven will read the pom for spring-context and get any necessary dependencies that it has too, so you won’t need to specifically put them in your own pom.

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