Whats the difference between spring-framework-bom and platform-bom?

Question

Ive been experimenting with Spring BOM and note there are two build managers - spring-framework-bom and platform-bom

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
            <dependency> 
                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> 
                <artifactId>spring-framework-bom</artifactId> 
                <version>${spring.version}</version> 
                <type>pom</type> 
                <scope>import</scope> 
            </dependency> 
        </dependencies> 
</dependencyManagement>

Or

<dependencyManagement>
     <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.spring.platform</groupId>
            <artifactId>platform-bom</artifactId>
            <version>1.1.2.RELEASE</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

Whats the difference? Or has spring-framework-bom been superceded? Personally I prefer the spring-framework-bom approach as i can control the spring version?

Answer 1

I had a hunt around on this question last week, and as M Deinum has stated the difference is that spring-framework-bom is just for the framework. I then raised an issue that how can i control the spring version if using platform-bom.

The answer is to check the spring boot dependencies project for spring version -

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/blob/master/spring-boot-dependencies/pom.xml

A summary of versions are -

Spring Platform BOM Version Spring Version 1.1.2.RELEASE 4.2.0.RC1
1.1.0.RELEASE 4.1.3.RELEASE 1.0.0.RELEASE 4.0.5.RELEASE

Reference -

https://glenware.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/spring-bom-bill-of-materials/