How to install Spring Framework in Eclipse

Step1:

Download Spring Framework

http://www.springsource.org/download

Click the “Download” and save it to your pc, in my case, I save it to the folder C:/Spring.

Step2:

Unzip the “spring-framework-3.1.1.RELEASE” files ( you may have different version name), you should

see

Open the “dist” folder, you show see all the spring frameword .jar files ( in my case, there are 21 .jar files

) are under the “dist” folder which we will add it later in to the project

Step3:

Download Apache Commons logging jar file.

To make the Spring Framework work, you also need to download Apache Commons logging jar file.

http://commons.apache.org/codec/download_codec.cgi

Click the “Download” and save it to your pc, in my case, I save it to the folder C:/Spring.

Step4:

Unzip the “commons-logging-1.1.1” files (you may have different version name), you should see

The “commons-logging-1.1.1.jar” which we will add it later in to the project

After you download these 4 steps, now, we can Install Spring Framework into the project

Step 5

( if you do not have eclipse installed, you can download from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/, you

also can find the detail installation in the article “how to install eclipse IDE for java EE developers” )

Open your eclipse, Go to FileNewProject

Select Java Project and click “Next”

Type the project name such as “SpringDemo” and click “Finish”

Right click “SpringDemo” project, open “Properties” , then select “Java Build Path”

Click “Add Library”

Click “Next”,

then, click “User Libraries” , then click “New”

to add your library name, such as “spring”

Click “ok”

Click “add JARS”, navigate your “spring-framework-3.1.1.RELEASE” folder, select all jar files and add

them to

Click “ok”

Then select “spring” and click “Add JARs” to add the “commons-logging-1.1.1.jar”

You show see the all jars has been added in your user library “spring”

Click “ok” , click “Finish”, click “OK”

Now you have added all the Spring Framework stuff under your SpringDemo project, you are ready to

go