Hunting for the Maven Repository hosting Spring Framework 2.5 RC 1 binaries

Spring Framework 2.5 RC 1 is released. But as Maven user, where do I get the binaries from?

For those in a hurry: You will find the information in a blog entry by Ben Hale.

If you want to know how I found the information, read on...

I could download the distribution from the Spring Framework download page. But then I would need to go through all that work to put the needed files on our internal repository. What a hassle.

Somehow I figured out that the Sprint Framework development team puts its binaries on a Maven repository on S3. But finding something there is another challenge. You can browser, but you cannot search...

But finally I found a blog entry on Carlos Sanchez blog which contained the desperately wanted information. Carlos was listing the repository URL as well as the source where he got the information from: A blog entry by Ben Hale.

For how to configure your repository information in your pom XML file, see Ben Hales posting.