Source jars missing from maven repository [SPR-3971]

[spring-projects-issues]

Patrick Crocker opened SPR-3971 and commented

The Maven Central repository DOES have the '-sources.jar' for the full spring dependency:

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring/2.0.7/spring-2.0.7-sources.jar

Central Maven repository does NOT contain the '-sources.jar' as expected for the following modules:

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-agent/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-aop/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-aspects/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-beans/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-context/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-core/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-dao/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-hibernate2/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-hibernate3/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-ibatis/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-jca/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-jdbc/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-jdo/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-jms/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-jmx/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-jpa/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-mock/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-portlet/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-remoting/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-struts/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-support/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-tomcat-weaver/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-toplink/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-web/2.0.7/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-webmvc/2.0.7/

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Affects: 2.0.7

2 votes, 2 watchers

[spring-projects-issues]

Glen Mazza commented

I think this issue is much more important than just minor--I would say it is vital for proper usage of the Spring framework. People heavily use Maven today for building their applications, and the command "mvn eclipse:eclipse -DdownloadSources="true"" is used to create Eclipse projects with the underlying Spring source code attached so they can fully debug/trace their Spring-based applications. But that command won't work if the source code is not attached to the individual modules, which in turn forces developers to unnecessarily include the entire Spring framework if they want to debug their applications in Eclipse.

It is not good for the long-term growth of the Spring project if it requires linking the entire project as a full Maven dependency just to obtain source code dependencies for that small portion of Spring that the developer actually needs.

Presently, there is a discussion on the Apache CXF web service list[1] to include the entire Spring framework as a dependency instead of the just the subset it needs. One of the reasons given was because of this source code downloading issue. While it may turn out to make sense anyway for us to go to a full Spring dependency, I would like that decision to be judged on its technical merits alone, not because of this fixable issue.

Regards,
Glen Mazza
Apache CXF Team

[1] http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Change-to-full-spring-jar--p16364186.html

[spring-projects-issues]

Juergen Hoeller commented

This is considered as fixed since Spring 2.5 - we do publish the modules sources for all 2.5.x releases. If there are any issues remaining there, let us know!

Juergen

[spring-projects-issues]

John Smith commented

There is still no jar file with sources http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-portlet/2.0.8/.

[spring-projects-issues]

nebhale commented

We won't be going back retrospectively and adding source jars to releases that do not have them. That would require building those source jars by hand (rather than having the build do it) and that is mistake prone and laborious (see Jürgen's comment earlier). In addition support for the 2.0.x line has been ended and it's recommended that you upgrade to either the 2.5.x line or the forthcoming 3.0.0 line.