Cannot find jars required by tutorial like spring.jar, please help

[terps357]

http://techtots.blogspot.com/2010/02...notations.html

I found a nice tutorial that clearly lists everything I need to get a working AOP program going that does something similar to what I want. The problem is, when I download it from this website (the 155mb one) I get tons of folders and I cannot find anything, not even spring.jar. I cannot find a "lib" or "dist" folder that the tutorial mentions

I must be making some noob mistake, can anybody help me out? I feel like I am taking crazy pills

[chudak]

Use this link:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/dist.springf....2.RELEASE.zip

[terps357]

That link does not contain a spring.jar in the "dist" folder. I keep seeing links saying that certain jars should be in folders that do no exist. I don't understand, some of those links, like the one I first gave are very recent...

[cstepnitz]

On this site go to Downloads etc. Pick the version of Spring you want and download the zip file with dependencies.

Extract everything in the zip file to a folder.

In that folder, you will see something like the following (this is from spring-framework-2.5.6.SEC01):

aspectj
dist
docs
jarcontent
lib
mock
samples
etc....


You want the stuff in lib.

[cstepnitz]

Also, you'll find spring.jar and spring-sources.jar (the source jar) in spring-framework-2.5.6.SEC01\dist.

[terps357]

Thanks for pointing this all out, it all makes more sense now.

[mikespring]

I have downloaded spring-framework-3.0.2.RELEASE-dependencies.zip
from http://www.springsource.com/download...ng%20Framework.

It does not seem to have the structure mentioned in earlier posts, in particular I can see no dist directory at all.

The top level of the zip file starts with:
com.bea.commonj
com.caucho
...

It seems as though this archive contains the dependencies but not the spring framework itself.

Unless I am being very silly ...

[cstepnitz]

Try looking for spring.jar in dist, not lib.

[mikespring]

I cannot find a dist directory in the zip file.

[Deluxouss]

I think since the vrsion 3.0 Spring doesn't use the same file architecture.
Now the zip file is a lot of folders which package name like...
There is not a spring.jar anymore

That's pretty annoying!!!

Can someone tell me what's the new name for this jar??