Minimum JARs for Spring 3.0 dependency injection

the best - and reliable way - of establishing this is to create a maven project and add dependency for spring-core, spring-bundle and spring-context. when you build/install this project maven will do the needful.

As stated in another answer, maven is the true path. If; however, you choose to stray, then based on section "1.2.1 Core Container" of the Spring Reference I believe these to be the minimum jars for core spring functionality:

• org.springframework.asm-3.0.4.RELEASE.jar
• org.springframework.beans-3.0.4.RELEASE.jar
• org.springframework.context-3.0.4.RELEASE.jar
• org.springframework.core-3.0.4.RELEASE.jar
• org.springframework.expression-3.0.4.RELEASE.jar

Edited: sorted the list, using wiki formatting.

Updated for Spring 3.2: It seems that asm is not part of the 3.2 distribution. Below is the list for Spring 3.2:

• spring-beans-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar
• spring-context-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar
• spring-core-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar
• spring-expression-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar