Is there a project facet for adding spring libraries to a project in Eclipse?

Question

Everywhere I look I can only see people adding external jars to their Spring MVC web projects when starting a new one. Why isn't there a simple project facet for adding these to a project? I mean, what's the point of creating all these neato eclipse plugins if I can't quickly start a dynamic web project for spring framework without going through this tedious manual process?

Also if I have to download these jars separate of the Spring IDE and core plugins won't I run into problems if the versions become out of sync.

There are project facets for jstl, struts, jsf...etc.. why not spring?

Answer 1

MyEclipse for Spring will automatically add all required libraries to Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow, Adobe+Spring, and GWT+Spring web applications. It definitely saves a lot of time when starting new projects.

Answer 2

It seems there is a package from Oracle which contains a Spring facet, but it also contains quite a large amount DB & WebLogic Stuff.

http://blog.symbyo.com/2010/02/build-java-application-with-eclipse.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/eclipse/overview/index.html