Getting Spring Rich

Spring Rich is a separate project on SourceForge.net; you can check out the latest version from CVS using the commands shown in Listing B-1.

Listing B-1: CVS Commands to Check Out Spring Rich

cvs -d:pserver:[e-mail]:/cvsroot/spring-rich-c login      cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[e-mail]:/cvsroot/spring-rich-c ¿ co modulename 

Spring Rich contains the .project file Eclipse uses to identify a Java project, which means you can just as easily use Eclipse's CVS client to check out the framework. Figure B-1 shows Eclipse with the Spring Rich repository.

Figure B-1: Eclipse with the Spring Rich CVS repository explorer

At the time of this writing, the only way to get Spring Rich is to check out the latest source from CVS. In the future, you will always be able to get the current version from the same repository location, even when official binary and source distributions become available. The Spring Rich team expects to have two binary releases (lite and with dependencies) ready by February 2005.