Can Spring-WS 1.5 be used with Spring 3?

Question

Spring-ws 1.5.9 depends on Spring 2.5 (based on the pom). Can it be used with Spring 3 without running into any classloading issues. I know that some of the packages match b

Answer 1

In addition to skaffman's answer, here's how to use Spring-WS 1.5.9 with Spring 3 through Maven:

1) First exclude the OXM dependency of Spring 3. Just remove the following dependency from your POM.

   org.springframework
   spring-oxm

If you're using another framework that has a transitive dependency on Spring 3 (like Apache Camel's camel-spring module) use:

org.apache.camel
camel-spring

    
        org.springframework
        spring-oxm
    

2) Remove the transitive dependency that Spring-WS 1.5.9 has on Spring 2.5.6:

    org.springframework.ws
    spring-ws-core
    1.5.9
    
        
            org.springframework
            spring-core
        
        
            org.springframework
            spring-beans
        
        
            org.springframework
            spring-context
        
        
            org.springframework
            spring-aop
        
        
            org.springframework
            spring-web
        
        
            org.springframework
            spring-webmvc
        
        
            org.springframework
            spring-test
        
    


    org.springframework.ws
    spring-ws-support
    1.5.9
    
        
            org.springframework
            spring-core
        
        
            org.springframework
            spring-beans
        
        
            org.springframework
            spring-jms
        
        
            org.springframework
            spring-tx
        
        
            org.springframework
            spring-test
        
    

3) Finally make sure you include the necessary Spring 3 modules (the list above) as dependencies in your POM.

That's it you should now be able to use Spring-WS 1.5.9 with Spring 3.x.