Minimum JARs for Spring 3.0 dependency injection

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Chin Huang picture Chin Huang · Oct 29, 2010 · Viewed 20k times · Source

Similarly to this question regarding an earlier Spring version, what are the minimum dependencies required for an application to use Spring 3.0 dependency injection only? The application context will be configured by XML only. Spring depends on a logging framework, so assume I already include these JARs for logging:

  • jcl-over-slf4j.jar
  • logback-classic.jar
  • logback-core.jar
  • slf4j-api.jar

Answer

DwB picture DwB · Nov 5, 2010

As stated in another answer, maven is the true path. If; however, you choose to stray, then based on section "1.2.1 Core Container" of the Spring Reference I believe these to be the minimum jars for core spring functionality:

  • org.springframework.asm-3.0.4.RELEASE.jar
  • org.springframework.beans-3.0.4.RELEASE.jar
  • org.springframework.context-3.0.4.RELEASE.jar
  • org.springframework.core-3.0.4.RELEASE.jar
  • org.springframework.expression-3.0.4.RELEASE.jar

Edited: sorted the list, using wiki formatting.

Updated for Spring 3.2: It seems that asm is not part of the 3.2 distribution. Below is the list for Spring 3.2:

  • spring-beans-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar
  • spring-context-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar
  • spring-core-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar
  • spring-expression-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar

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