it compiles against spring 2.0 and pulls this in as well, but I have no idea 
why it does it.
I've now removed the specific version so we fall back to the spring version 
defined in the parent pom.
I also upgraded it to the latest 5.3.x which also seems a bit outdated already.

So probably even keep it and just modernise the plugin?

LieGrue,
strub


> Am 27.07.2026 um 10:05 schrieb Romain Manni-Bucau <[email protected]>:
> 
> Think there were some other usages but also think they are all legacy and 
> unlikely to use any new release (not even sure v3 was used) so +1 from me
> 
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> Le lun. 27 juil. 2026 à 09:28, Mark Struberg via dev <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
>> hi!
>> I created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XBEAN-362 for removing the 
>> maven plugin from xbean.
>> 
>> Please should out if one is still using it (which I doubt).
>> Afaiu the maven-xbean-plugin exists to create spring XML definitions for 
>> spring 2. This is stone old and not a supported spring environment for more 
>> than a decade.
>> 
>> We should imo just remove it. It is btw also named wrongly. Since around 
>> 2008 a convention exists that only Maven own plugins should be named 
>> maven-*-plugin. Other projects should use project-maven-plugin as naming 
>> scheme.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> LieGrue,
>> 
>> strub
>> 
>> 
>> 

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