You can download and add the Spring artifacts yourself, or go full-bore with GoPivotal’s Spring Tool Suite (STS). Note there are alternatives to integrating Spring into Eclipse, using Maven.

Maven will take care of downloading and managing the required Spring artifacts into our Eclipse-based project.

We will use Maven for one of its best known features, dependency management. Conveniently, Maven is tightly integrated with Eclipse. Maven is a marketed as a project management tool, centralizing a project’s build, reporting and documentation. In the following post, I will demonstrate the ease of integrating Spring with Eclipse, using Maven. The use of Spring within Eclipse is very common. Similar to Spring in terms of wide-spread adoption, Eclipse is leading Java IDE, competing with Oracle’s NetBeans and JetBrain’s IntelliJ. Spring focuses on the ‘plumbing’ of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.” According to GoPivotal’s website, “The Spring Framework provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications. All source code for this post is available on GitHub.Īlthough there is a growing adoption of Java EE 6 and CDI in recent years, Spring is still a well-entrenched, open-source framework for professional Java development.

Learn how to install, configure, and integrate these three leading Java development tools. Integrate the Spring Framework into your next Eclipse-based project using Apache Maven.

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