Key features of the Spring JavaConfig project have been migrated into the core Spring Framework as of version 3.0. Please see the Spring 3.0 documentation on @Configuration and @Bean support: http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/beans.html#beans-java Though the project should now be considered 'decommissioned', the resources herein will remain indefinitely for posterity's sake: dist - Final JavaConfig milestone release distribution (M4) docs/reference - HTML and PDF reference documentation docs/javadoc-api - JavaDoc Sources will also remain available at: http://src.springsource.org/svn/spring-javaconfig