[TOMEE-3914] Spring 3 Dependencies in TomEE Root POM

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 9.0.0-M7, 8.0.11
• Fix Version/s: 9.0.0.RC1, 8.0.13
• Component/s: TomEE Core Server
• Assignee: Richard Zowalla
• Reporter: Richard Zowalla
• Created: 17/Apr/22 11:10
• Updated: 11/Oct/22 07:15
• Resolved: 14/Jul/22 07:47

Description

After Dependabot created https://github.com/apache/tomee/pull/847 I checked the usage of Spring within TomEE.

It looks like the Spring 3 dependencies in the root pom are of ancient / legacy history, i.e. they are not used in the implementation, so can probably be removed.