Java - install Spring from maven

Question

I Have started to learn on springs recently and I am stuck at the very beginning. in the tutorial that I follow on youtube it says that i have to install maven and from maven i can install spring, i have installed maven and now i want to install Spring framework from it. it sounds pretty simple. As i understand, maven searches for the spring framework from its repositories and downloads.

I have referred these two links - First and Second

But when i try to search for dependencies, i dont see any dependencies dispalyed to me when i search for "springframework" as shown in the tutorial.

everywhere i google, they say the maven indexes have to be updated on startup, the update process starts when i start eclipse , but its not finishing/ending.

This is my pom.xml file,

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <groupId>com.caveofprogramming.spring.test</groupId>
  <artifactId>testprog</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>

  <name>testprog</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

  <properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
  </properties>

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

have you the same problem out of eclipse (by mvn command) ? – Stéphane GRILLON Mar 06 '17 at 19:38 — Stéphane GRILLON, Mar 06 '17 at 19:38
i am running this on windows, so not tried in command line – Vasanth Nag K V Mar 06 '17 at 19:41 — Vasanth Nag K V, Mar 06 '17 at 19:41

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 06 '17 at 19:45

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Try to add this to your dependencies:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
    <version>4.3.7.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

answered Mar 06 '17 at 19:45

ronce96

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i tried adding, it downloaded the spring jars but in pom.xml i have an error now - "Multiple annotations found at this line: - Failure to transfer org.springframework:spring-core:jar:4.3.7.RELEASE from https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of central has elapsed or updates are forced. Original error: Could not transfer artifact" this is at the line - xsi:schemaLocation= – Vasanth Nag K V Mar 06 '17 at 20:04
try to execute: mvn clean install – ronce96 Mar 06 '17 at 20:06
where should i execute this?? i am not using command line, i am working on windows – Vasanth Nag K V Mar 06 '17 at 20:09
right click on the project > run as > Maven clean and then maven install – ronce96 Mar 06 '17 at 20:19

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 22 '18 at 18:04

It's pretty simple. For starting out, your pom.xml file should have these directories (This is for maven):

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
    <version>4.3.7.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

and

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
    <version>4.3.7.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

and

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
    <version>4.3.7.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

these should be under the

so in the end your pom.xml should look like this:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>qwe</groupId>
  <artifactId>qwe</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>war</packaging>
  <build>
    <testSourceDirectory>src/main/test</testSourceDirectory>
    <resources>
      <resource>
        <directory>src/main/webapp</directory>
        <excludes>
          <exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
        </excludes>
      </resource>
    </resources>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.7.0</version>
        <configuration>
          <source>1.8</source>
          <target>1.8</target>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.0</version>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  <dependencies><dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
    <version>4.3.7.RELEASE</version>
</dependency><dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
    <version>4.3.7.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
    <version>4.3.7.RELEASE</version>
</dependency></dependencies>

</project>

Subsequently you should right click your maven project > run > run as > maven install and it should install properly. email me at thenwb3@gmail.com if you have any questions.

yyunikov · Answer 3 · 2017-03-06T20:04:42.090

Spring is a huge framework and it depends which parts of it do you need. For example, for spring-context specify the following dependency in pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
    <version>4.3.7.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

For spring-core:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
    <version>4.3.7.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

For spring-web:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
    <version>4.3.7.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

And so on. I recommend you to use Maven Repository where you can find any Spring dependency you need. Some of the dependencies already include another, for example, with spring-mvc you already get spring-core, spring-context, string-web and some others.

So, try to add those dependencies and then execute the Maven command:

mvn clean install

This should download all the dependencies and put them to your local repository. If this will not work, try to use -U parameter like this

mvn clean install -U

Java - install Spring from maven

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