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To start a Spring project, you need to include the Spring JAR libraries in your applications classpath. To do this, you should download the Spring libraries from the Spring framework web site (without using Maven) and locate these manually in your class path. Thanks to Maven, you only need to add to your POM file (which is located in your application root) the dependency XML definition as follows:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring</artifactId>
<version>2.5.2</version>
</dependency>