Month: January 2012

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Woz: Loves the iPhone but wishes for Android’s features

I love how Woz doesn’t force Apple’s products down your throat just because of his past connections with the company. In a recent interview he described how he loves the simplicity of the iPhone but wishes it could have the features of Android phones.

It amazes me how passionate some people can be in online forums almost to the point of ridiculousness. People – everything has it’s pros and cons. Pick what works for you and go with it. And just because it’s the best thing since sliced bread for you, doesn’t mean it has anywhere near the same appeal for someone else.

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Blank template pom.xml for a webapp

<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>TODO</groupId>
  <artifactId>TODO</artifactId>
  <packaging>war</packaging>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>TODO app name</name>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
  <build>
    <finalName>MvnWebapp</finalName>
  <plugins>
  <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.2</version>
        <configuration>
          <source>1.6</source>
          <target>1.6</target>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
  </plugins>
  </build>
</project>
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Maven dependencies for Spring Framework libraries

Updated 10/8/14: In reality you only need a couple of the core jars because all the others will be pull in as dependencies. For example, for a 3.2.11 web app using Spring MVC, these two are sufficient:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
  <version>3.2.11.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
  <version>3.2.11.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

Starting a new Spring-based project from scratch, what Spring libraries do you need in your maven pom file? This post has a good list with an explanation of each  – here’s the list from the article (for Spring 3.0):

<!-- Shared version number properties -->
<properties>
<org.springframework.version>3.0.0.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
</properties>
<!--
Core utilities used by other modules.
Define this if you use Spring Utility APIs (org.springframework.core.*/org.springframework.util.*)
-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.core</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!--
Expression Language (depends on core)
Define this if you use Spring Expression APIs (org.springframework.expression.*)
-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.expression</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>

<!--
Bean Factory and JavaBeans utilities (depends on core)
Define this if you use Spring Bean APIs (org.springframework.beans.*)
-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.beans</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>

<!--
Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) Framework (depends on core, beans)
Define this if you use Spring AOP APIs (org.springframework.aop.*)
-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.aop</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>

<!--
Application Context (depends on core, expression, aop, beans)
This is the central artifact for Spring's Dependency Injection Container and is generally always defined
-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.context</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>


<!--
Various Application Context utilities, including EhCache, JavaMail, Quartz, and Freemarker integration
Define this if you need any of these integrations
-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.context.support</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>


<!--
Transaction Management Abstraction (depends on core, beans, aop, context)
Define this if you use Spring Transactions or DAO Exception Hierarchy
(org.springframework.transaction.*/org.springframework.dao.*)
-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.transaction</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>


<!--
JDBC Data Access Library (depends on core, beans, context, transaction)
Define this if you use Spring's JdbcTemplate API (org.springframework.jdbc.*)
-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.jdbc</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>


<!--
Object-to-Relation-Mapping (ORM) integration with Hibernate, JPA, and iBatis.
(depends on core, beans, context, transaction)
Define this if you need ORM (org.springframework.orm.*)
-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.orm</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>


<!--
Object-to-XML Mapping (OXM) abstraction and integration with JAXB, JiBX, Castor, XStream, and XML Beans.
(depends on core, beans, context)
Define this if you need OXM (org.springframework.oxm.*)
-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.oxm</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>


<!--
Web app development utilities common across Servlet/Portlet environments (depends on core, beans, context)
Define this if you use Spring MVC, or wish to use Struts, JSF, or another web framework with Spring (org.springframework.web.*)
-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.web</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>


<!--
Spring MVC for Servlet Environments (depends on core, beans, context, web)
Define this if you use Spring MVC with a Servlet Container such as Apache Tomcat (org.springframework.web.servlet.*)
-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.web.servlet</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>


<!--
Spring MVC for Portlet Environments (depends on core, beans, context, web)
Define this if you use Spring MVC with a Portlet Container (org.springframework.web.portlet.*)
-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.web.portlet</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>


<!--
Support for testing Spring applications with tools such as JUnit and TestNG
This artifact is generally always defined with a 'test' scope for the integration testing framework and unit testing stubs
-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.test</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

For a Spring 3.1 MVC web app, here’s a similar list (also including JSTL jars) – notice the artifact id names changed between Sprintg 3.0 to 3.1:

<dependencies>
<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
    <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
    <version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>taglibs</groupId>
    <artifactId>standard</artifactId>
    <version>1.1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.2.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.2.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
<pre></dependencies>
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