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"test" source and target compatibility has been upgraded to 1.7 except where noted, allowing us to use 1.7 language features such as diamond-style (<>) generics declarations, automatic resource management and multi-catch. More importantly, we will be able to upgrade to 1.8 once it is available in order to make use of lambda expressions, etc in our test cases. IDE configurations must be relaxed to allow 1.7 across the board, as neither Eclipse nor IDEA are clever enough to allow for different language levels across production and test resources. See [1] for a feature request on that front. spring-oxm is a special case here, and has been pinned at 1.6 compatibility even for its test sources in order to avoid a class verification error that JibX throws when encountering 1.7-level bytecode [2]. Likewise with spring-orm, toplink encounters a similar class verification error, so has been pinned to 1.6 for the time being. When we remove the (already deprecated since 3.2) Toplink support we can restore compatibility to 1.7. [1]: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-97814 [2]: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JIBX-465 Issue: SPR-10129
Spring Framework
The Spring Framework provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications - on any kind of deployment platform. A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: 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.
The framework also serves as the foundation for Spring Integration, Spring Batch and the rest of the Spring family of projects. Browse the repositories under the SpringSource organization on GitHub for a full list.
.NET and Python variants are available as well.
Downloading artifacts
See downloading Spring artifacts for Maven repository information. Unable to use Maven or other transitive dependency management tools? See building a distribution with dependencies.
Documentation
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Getting support
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Issue Tracking
Report issues via the Spring Framework JIRA. Understand our issue management process by reading about the lifecycle of an issue. Think you've found a bug? Please consider submitting a reproduction project via the spring-framework-issues GitHub repository. The readme there provides simple step-by-step instructions.
Building from source
The Spring Framework uses a Gradle-based build system. In the instructions
below, ./gradlew is invoked from the root of the source tree and serves as
a cross-platform, self-contained bootstrap mechanism for the build. The only
prerequisites are Git and JDK 1.7+.
check out sources
git clone git://github.com/SpringSource/spring-framework.git
compile and test, build all jars, distribution zips and docs
./gradlew build
install all spring-* jars into your local Maven cache
./gradlew install
import sources into your IDE
Run ./import-into-eclipse.sh or read import-into-idea.md as appropriate.
... and discover more commands with ./gradlew tasks. See also the Gradle
build and release FAQ.
Contributing
Pull requests are welcome; see the contributor guidelines for details.
Staying in touch
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License
The Spring Framework is released under version 2.0 of the Apache License.