title: How to get a spring-framework-3.0.5-RELEASE-with-dependencies.zip file for Spring 3?
body: <p>I have a bit of an issue with Spring 3 and it involves its dependencies or better said "their lack of...".</p>
  
  <p>When you <a href="http://www.springsource.com/download/community" rel="nofollow">download</a> Spring 2.5.x for example you get a <code>spring-framework-2.5.6-with-dependencies.zip</code> file containing the Spring distribution as well as its dependencies. </p>
  
  <p>For Spring 3 there isn't one. You only get the distro while dependencies are managed in Maven repository and retrieved with Ivy. That was the decision springsource fellows took. Which brings me to my problem. </p>
  
  <p>At work Maven repository has "forbidden access" written all over it and we don't use Ivy. We use Maven but with a local enterprise repository and nothing beyond that is allowed (security concerns yada yada which ultimately makes sense but makes my job as a developer harder). To put something in the local repository means approvals, deployments of resources, configurations, acces rights, time, money etc. </p>
  
  <p>It is OK with a few JARS here and there but I imagine Spring dependencies mean more than a few JARs. So that will be approved and installed over o long period of time. Meanwhile we can't develop in Spring 3 (while everything is set up in the local repository) so we need the dependencies.</p>
  
  <p>I found this page here:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://static.springsource.org/downloads/nightly/snapshot-download.php?project=SPR" rel="nofollow">http://static.springsource.org/downloads/nightly/snapshot-download.php?project=SPR</a></p>
  
  <p>which contains some dependencies but i need it for release 3.0.5 not for nightly builds. </p>
  
  <p><strong>In short, I need a <code>spring-framework-3.0.5-RELEASE-with-dependencies.zip</code> file. Ho do I get one?</strong></p>
  
  <p>P.S. I must mention that I can't just download something home and bring everything on a stick which is the first suggestion that pops in mind. Other rules apply for this :D, so I need an official release to download.</p>