[FIXED] Maven entry for SpEL as a ScriptEngine

Issue

Can you please point me to maven dependency to add the SpEL - Spring Expression Language - as a ScriptEngine to my project - is there any in Spring?)

I've found some examples:

https://gist.github.com/maggandalf/1380124

https://github.com/melin/starflow/blob/master/src/main/java/com/googlecode/starflow/core/script/spel/SpelScriptEngine.java

The code in examples show how to wrap SpEL as a JSR-223 scripting engine and make it available to scripting manager by name (say, "spel").

But I'd like it in a form of maven dependency.

Solution

I don't know if I understand you correctly, but try this

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-expression</artifactId>
    <version>4.3.3.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

If pom.xml has this dependency only, the code in the package https://github.com/melin/starflow/blob/master/src/main/java/com/googlecode/starflow/core/script/spel/

should compile with JDK1.8.

(replace 4.3.3.RELEASE with another version if there is a need).

Answered By - John Donn