Downloading Spring Jars without using Maven

Question

How do you download Spring Framework jars if you can't stand Maven or any of the other build management tools. From what I can tell it seems you have to spend many frustrating hours on Google to find out how to do this. I thought Spring was supposed to be easy. All I'm trying to do is to write a simple Hello World application using Eclipse and Tomcat. Why is it so difficult with Spring 3?

Answer 1

go there

http://repo.spring.io/release/org/springframework/spring/

you can see all versions, like old school

Answer 2

Why can't you stand Maven? I like Maven, but I really like Gradle.

Either way, if you only build with your IDE, you can't automate your build (so no chance at continuous integration/delivery), and it's tough to integrate new members of your team. Specifically with this question about Spring dependencies, it is a lot easier to automate management of transitive dependencies rather than download them all yourself--and figuring out which new jars to download by tracing through one NoClassDefFoundError after another.

I think the Spring guys can't imagine why anyone would want to endure all these downsides. But it's your project and you should do what you think is right.

So if you must, grab the jars starting with this one from Maven Central yourself and have some fun.

Answer 3

That's funny. It seems everyone wants you to use a dependency management tool. You can always browse a maven repository and download the parts you need:

http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework