Do we have XSDs particularly for Spring 5.x?

Question

Can anyone please let me know if the Spring 5 version of XSDs are available?

Is there something like spring-beans-5.1.xsd, spring-context-5.1.xsd, spring-mvc-5.1.xsd or spring-beans-5.0.xsd, spring-context-5.0.xsd, spring-mvc-5.0.xsd available in Spring ?

If available, please provide the links for those XSDs.

Also, can anyone let me tell what is the compatible version of spring-security for Spring 5.x?

Anish B. · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-17T13:10:19.557

There is no XSD available for Spring 5.

Note: Instead of providing the explicit version of XML schema better go for the generic XML schema which can support any version of spring.

XSD version support list :

For spring-mvc :

For spring-context :

For spring-beans:

So, I would recommend you to go for generic XSDs because this reduces the confusion to pick which XSD version for Spring version that you are using.

Just an example :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd">
     
    <!-- Bean declaration and other configurations -->
     
</beans>

Let's say if you are using spring-core 5.0.4.RELEASE, then compatible version of spring-security is 5.0.2.RELEASE.

If maven project, then add these dependencies in pom.xml :

<dependencies>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-security-core</artifactId>
      <version>5.0.2.RELEASE</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
      <version>5.0.4.RELEASE</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
      <version>5.0.4.RELEASE</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
      <version>5.0.4.RELEASE</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
      <version>5.0.4.RELEASE</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
      <version>5.0.4.RELEASE</version>
   </dependency>
</dependencies>

How to check which version of spring security is supported by spring-core, spring-beans, spring-context & so on ?

Open https://mvnrepository.com
Type spring security in the search box
Press enter.
Click on spring security core.

Click on the version that you want to use. Let's say I have opened 5.0.2.RELEASE, then see for compile dependencies. It will show the list of library that it supports.

See for the version of spring-beans, spring-context & so on.

Or

If it's a normal project, then download jar from https://mvnrepository.com and add the appropriate spring jars needed in your project.

Or

You can download Spring version jar zip (all in one) from here: https://repo.spring.io/release/org/springframework/spring/

Extract it and add all the jars to your project on the classpath.

Thanks Anish. But we have the below links for spring 3.0, spring 4.2 xsd's http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.2.xsd My XML files has the bean definitio as below. — user1179752, Oct 05 '18 at 09:47
Thanks Anish. But we have the below links for spring 3.0, spring 4.2 xsd's http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.2.xsd I could not find similar links for spring 5 xsd's My XML files has the bean definition as below. `xsi:schemaLocation=http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.2.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.2.xsd"` Need to replace this 4.2 with 5.0 — user1179752, Oct 05 '18 at 09:58
I found upto 4.3 XSD. xsi:schemaLocation=http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.3.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.3.xsd There is no spring xsd for 5.0. — Anish B., Oct 05 '18 at 10:45