2.0.0.0.M5 spring-integration-xml dependency to spring-xml by error or on purpose?

[ogeisser]

Hi,

currently the spring-integration-xml pox.xml states a dependency to spring-xml (from spring-ws).

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-xml</artifactId>
    <version>${<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-xml</artifactId>
			<version>${org.springframework.ws.version}</version>
		</dependency>}</version>
</dependency>

with: org.springframework.ws.version = 1.5.9

I am curious if this dependency is really needed?

It seems a little bit odd to me to depend on a jar with some "internal helper" classes from the webservice project.

Should I open a JIRA issue for this?

[Mark Fisher]

The spring-xml project is much more than "internal helper classes" for Spring WS. There is quite a bit of XPath support there, and we are building on that extensively in Spring Integration's XML module. You can think of "spring-xml" as a sibling to "spring-oxm". The latter has now been moved into the Spring Framework itself, since it's so universally applicable. The same may happen for spring-xml at some point, but for now it's simply under the Spring-WS "umbrella".

Hope that helps.
-Mark