How do I know which maven package contains the class I am going to use?

Question

For example, if I am new to spring mvc framework, I follow a tutorial and need to use DispatcherServlet. So I come to maven repository, search for spring, comes out many dependency candidate:

spring-context, spring-web, spring-core, ....

How do I know which of them contains the class I wanted: DispatcherServlet, without searching on Google first?

Answer 1

You can go to the Advanced search page of Maven Central which gives you the choice to search groupId, artifactId, version, packaging and classifier or for a Classname.