The purpose of this repository is to host a working copy of the Spring Framework 2.5, referenced in Spring MVC Step by Step

http://docs.spring.io/docs/Spring-MVC-step-by-step/

A copy of the Spring Framework 2.5 was downloaded for this repository from this location:

http://docs.spring.io/downloads/nightly/release-download.php?project=SPR

You can download a copy of the same file using this command:

wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/dist.springframework.org/release/SPR/spring-framework-2.5.1-with-dependencies.zip