recent commentor here ragged, “It’s only half of the world that’s using Maven”, when pointing out it is not obvious how to obtain Spring 3 artifacts with Maven. In this entry, I’ll show you how to do this and what the options are. This information will also be integrated into the reference documentation of the upcoming Spring 3 final release.
Maven Repositories where Spring Artifacts are Published
In general, Spring publishes its artifacts to two different places:
Maven Central, which is the default repository Maven queries, and does not require any special configuration to use
The Enterprise Bundle Repository (EBR), which is run by SpringSource and also hosts all the libraries that integrate with Spring
