Where can I find Spring 4 OSGi bundles

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Philippe Marschall picture Philippe Marschall · Jan 17, 2014 · Viewed 16.7k times · Source

Where can I find OSGi bundles for Spring 4? I checked http://ebr.springsource.com/ but can only find Spring 3.2.x and the artifacts in Maven Central are not bundles.

Clarification

I'm not looking for Spring DM or similar. I'm looking for the "Spring Framework" JARs (spring-core, spring-beans, spring-context, …) as OSGi bundles. I'm not trying to create an application context in an OSGi environment. I just need the (exception) classes in an OSGi environment.

Answer

Mirko Jahn picture Mirko Jahn · Feb 19, 2014

Spring will NOT support any further releases as OSGi bundles. The official support has been stopped with spring 3.2.4 (although you could find 3.2.5 artifacts here, contradicting the statement made in the Eclipse Forum)

Glyn Normington from Spring source acknowledged that in several places, see here:

However, there is hope. On the Karaf - dev list, one can read that they intend to support spring libraries in the ServiceMix project. Details in the entire thread see here.

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