Maven 2 and the spring framework (or how to get your quick fix)
Although the maven repository often gets updated quite promptly sometimes us maven (ab)users get left out on a dry run and we have to wait for a uncertain period of time until our favorite lib gets uploaded to the repo. One of the more complex projects out there is the spring framework that even gets some special care by Carlos so that it gets in the repo as quickly as possible. What I wanted to point out to anyone that is waiting for the official inclusion to the repo is that now spring ships with an ant task that will copy the jar's in your repo, sweet! ant mvn.install.jars Submodules don't ship with a pom and declared dependencies (a shame but we'll get there one day, I hope) and also the required libs don't get copied to the repo as well. This is a bummer for some situations. I wanted to use the latest hibernate with JPA and for instance ibiblio doesn't have the latest hibernate entity manager that in turn has it's own nice set of dependencies that I would n