How to download Spring Framework JAR files with and without Maven or Gradle

In java If we need to use some functionality to developed by someone else. we need to include that functionality as a class file in our jar or war file.

We need a jar file of that compiled classes. Before the invention of the maven, the developer used to include that jar files to their classpath. and that's it. They can use the third party jar in their project.

But the invention of Maven and after Gradle makes developers' life much easier.

The developers need to include jar dependency with versions in the pom.xml file. and that's it. no classpath setup is needed.

Maven automatically downloads all jar files of the specified version along with their dependencies. for you.

If jars are already present in local system i.e .m2 directory it takes it
If not they search jar files in maven central repository with given version where other developers put all compiled jar files.
Download all dependencies in the local .m2 directory.
Make references to that jar file.
Run the application project or build the.
If fat jar included all required jar libraries from the .m2 directory into classpath and build an independent fat jar.

In this article, I will explain how to download any open source library JAR like spring hibernates,spring boot, etc with and without using Maven or Gradle or any other dependency management tool.

1). Download Spring framework JAR from Maven Central Repository

If you are using Maven, we know that Maven downloads all the JAR files from the repository in the cloud, it could be the local or , Maven central, or nexus repository.

The open-source libraries of any version can be downloaded from other repositories. You can see the maven central dependency just by searching like

eg spring-core maven

it will give first like as https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-core You have to select the required version

Here is

5.2.6.RELEASE is the latest

Select it

  
  
<dependency>
    <groupid>org.springframework</groupid>
    <artifactid>spring-core</artifactid>
    <version>5.2.6.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

Put this dependency in your pom.xml

On command line go to your project dir

Use commands

  
mvn eclipse:clean
maven eclipse:eclipse
mvn clean install

If you are using eclipse use

Goto project right click->maven->update project

all this dependency will be downloaded to localtion

C:\Users\{username}\.m2\repository\ org\springframework\spring-core\5.2.6.RELEASE\

For Windows

/devuser/home/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-core/5.2.6.RELEASE/

For Linux

Here is jar file you want to download.

2). You can go to website jar-download.com or java2s.com

On jar-download.com Search the jar file and download it.

On java2s.com Search the jar file and download it.

3). Spring frameworks official site

For downloading the spring jars you go to springs open cdn website.

Spring frameworks official site

Select the version of jar you want to download

eg I selcted 5.2.6.RELEASE

Click on spring-5.2.6.RELEASE-dist.zip link,

It automatically downloads all the spring jars in the zip.

If you are using Gradle in your project

Open build.gradle file and put a dependency on it

  
dependencies {
   compile 'org.springframework:spring-core:5.2.6.RELEASE'
}

Thats it, We have seen How to download the Spring Framework JAR file with and without Maven and Gradle.

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How to download Spring Framework JAR files with and without Maven or Gradle