Maven dependency spring-web vs spring-webmvc

Question

What is the difference between the following dependencies?

    org.springframework         


        

Answer 1

spring-web provides core HTTP integration, including some handy Servlet filters, Spring HTTP Invoker, infrastructure to integrate with other web frameworks and HTTP technologies e.g. Hessian, Burlap.

spring-webmvc is an implementation of Spring MVC. spring-webmvc depends on on spring-web, thus including it will transitively add spring-web. You don't have to add spring-web explicitly.

You should depend only on spring-web if you don't use Spring MVC but want to take advantage of other web-related technologies that Spring supports.