I have been googling since yesterday trying to find help in installing the Spring Framework 3.0.5.Release (latest) in Eclipse 3.6 Helios. I cannot find anything on the spring site that helps people get started except for some OLD pages that do not seem to be relevant anymore especially for this latest version of Spring (3.0.5.Release)
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At any rate, I have a couple of questions in trying to follow a tutorial that I found:
1. This tutorial, written June 2010, assumes there is a dependencies.zip file that I should be able to download but I did not find a dependencies zip for this new version. Consequently I cannot follow, yet again, another tutorial on how to install Spring into Eclipse. There is no longer a spring.jar file and again there is no longer a dependencies file. Very confusing.
2. Is the STS
IDE plugin required in Eclipse to work with Spring? I just wanted to use Eclipse's IDE and could not find an answer in the documentation to this question. I'm sure I overlooked it or something but I could not find any reference to it.
I posted this question on a Spring forum but never got a response. Unfortunately, there is no newbie forum for those of us trying to even install the framework. Surely it cannot be this difficult. I'm sure I just haven't found the right help.
Any help/direction would be greatly appreciated. Just need a starting point so that I can start actually learning about Spring.
Regards.