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Spring 4.0 Environment Setup

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This tutorial explains how to setup your environment for working with the Spring 4.0 examples. Instead of explaining this process in every article, I would write it here so that this tutorial will be linked from the all Spring 4.0 tutorials for the setup reference.

Spring 4.0 Maven Dependency

At this time of writing this tutorial, Spring 4.0 RC1 is released and final version is to be released in the month of December 2013. If you want to get the Release Candidate 1, use the following maven dependency to download the files.

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
        <version>4.0.0.RC1</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>
<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>spring-milestones</id>
        <name>Spring Milestones</name>
        <url>http://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
        <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
        </snapshots>
    </repository>
</repositories>

Download Spring 4.0 Library Files

If you are looking to download the JAR files required to run the Spring 4.0 examples, please download it from here:

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