[XW-1093] Spring explicit dependency

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Environment: Linux Maven2
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Oleg Mikheev
• Created: 21/Mar/10 19:02
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:28

Description

XWork core pom
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/opensymphony/xwork-core/2.1.6/xwork-core-2.1.6.pom

defines an explicit non-optional dependency on Spring

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
<version>2.5.6</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>

which is not right - why would I need to get Spring jar just to use XWork?

That results in Struts2 being dependent on Spring:

mvn dependency:tree
....
[INFO] +- org.apache.struts:struts2-core:jar:2.1.8.1:compile
[INFO] | +- com.opensymphony:xwork-core:jar:2.1.6:compile
[INFO] | | - org.springframework:spring-test:jar:2.5.6:compile
....

This is not right too because Struts2 application is supposed to be runnable/deployable without any Spring jars.
Which causes issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-3412

Can we make Spring dependency optional?

Thanks!

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: WW-3412 War generated by struts-2-blank-archetype fails to start