Minimum JARs for Spring 3.0 dependency injection
Similarly to this question regarding an earlier Spring version , what are the minimum dependencies required for an application to use Spring 3.0 dependency injection only? The application context will be configured by XML only. Spring depends on a logging framework, so assume I already include these JARs for logging: jcl-over-slf4j.jar logback-classic.jar logback-core.jar slf4j-api.jar As stated in another answer, maven is the true path. If; however, you choose to stray, then based on section "1.2.1 Core Container" of the Spring Reference I believe these to be the minimum jars for core spring