I am trying to do my first project with Spring 3.0 (and maven). I have been using Spring 2.5 (and primer versions) in quite some projects. Nevertheless I am kinda confused,
You can add spring-context dependency for spring jars. You will get the following jars along with it.
org.springframework
spring-context
5.0.5.RELEASE
if you also want web components, you can use spring-webmvc dependency.
org.springframework
spring-webmvc
5.0.5.RELEASE
You can use whatever version of that you want. I have used 5.0.5.RELEASE here.