How to Access the Spring Enterprise Repository

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Customers who have purchased VMware Tanzu Spring or Tanzu Platform can access the private repository at Spring Enterprise.

Spring Enterprise is a product that provides long-term commercial support for Spring Framework, Spring Boot, and other components. For example, as of this writing, Spring Boot 2.7 (with 2.7.18 being the final OSS release version) is no longer supported in the open-source version, but it has been released up to version 2.7.33 in Spring Enterprise.

For details on each project provided in Spring Enterprise, please refer to the following link: https://enterprise.spring.io/projects

The following section explains how to configure Spring Enterprise repositories for use with Maven. Here, we introduce the method for accessing the repository directly. For usage in air-gapped environments, you need to copy the artifacts to JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus, or a mirror-only repository. Please refer to the separate documentation.

Obtaining a Spring Enterprise Access Token

Log in to https://support.broadcom.com, navigate to the "My Downloads" page, and click the "Registry Tokens" button.

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Click the "Generate Registry Token" button, and then click the "Submit" button.

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Click the "Copy Token" button for the generated token to copy it to your clipboard.

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If you cannot access this page, your license may not be activated. Please contact your account team to request license activation.

To verify that the token is available, visit https://packages.broadcom.com/artifactory/spring-enterprise/ (note the trailing /). A Basic Authentication dialog will appear. Enter your Broadcom support account username (email address) as the username and paste the copied token as the password to log in. If you can browse the repository as shown below, you are good to go.

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Configuring Spring Enterprise Repository for Maven

Create a settings.xml file in the .m2 directory under your home directory and write the following content. Replace BC_SUPPORT_USERNAME and BC_SUPPORT_ACCESS_TOKEN with your Broadcom support account username (email address) and the token copied in the previous steps, respectively. This will enable access to the Tanzu Spring Enterprise repository.

<settings>
  <servers>
    <server>
      <id>tanzu-spring-release</id>
      <username>BC_SUPPORT_USERNAME</username>
      <password>BC_SUPPORT_ACCESS_TOKEN</password>
    </server>
  </servers>
  <profiles>
    <profile>
      <id>tanzu-spring-release</id>
      <activation>
        <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
      </activation>
      <repositories>
        <repository>
          <id>tanzu-spring-release</id>
          <name>Spring Enterprise Supported Releases</name>
          <url>https://packages.broadcom.com/artifactory/spring-enterprise</url>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </snapshots>
        </repository>
      </repositories>
      <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
          <id>tanzu-spring-release</id>
          <name>Spring Enterprise Supported Releases</name>
          <url>https://packages.broadcom.com/artifactory/spring-enterprise</url>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </snapshots>
        </pluginRepository>
      </pluginRepositories>
    </profile>
  </profiles>
</settings>

Verification

Download a template project from https://start.spring.io/#!type=maven-project&language=java&platformVersion=3.5.14&packaging=jar&jvmVersion=21&groupId=com.example&artifactId=demo&name=demo&description=Demo%20project%20for%20Spring%20Boot&packageName=com.example.demo&dependencies=web.

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Click the "Generate" button to download the project. Once demo.zip is downloaded, unzip it and navigate to the extracted directory in your terminal.

unzip demo.zip
cd demo

Open pom.xml and change the Spring Boot version to a Spring Enterprise version. In the following example, we change it from Spring Boot 3.4.7 to 2.7.33.

Before

        <parent>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
                <version>3.5.14</version>
                <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
        </parent>

After

        <parent>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
                <version>2.7.33</version>
                <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
        </parent>

For Mac/Linux, compile the Maven project using the following command:

./mvnw clean compile

For Windows, compile the Maven project using the following command:

mvnw.cmd clean compile

If files are downloaded from https://packages.broadcom.com/artifactory/spring-enterprise as shown below, the setup is successful.

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If you want to check the Spring version used in the project, run the following command:

For Mac/Linux

./mvnw dependency:tree

For Windows

mvnw.cmd dependency:tree

In the example below, you can confirm that Spring Boot 2.7.33 and Spring Framework 5.3.48 are being used.

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] 
[INFO] --------------------------< com.example:demo >--------------------------
[INFO] Building  0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO]   from pom.xml
[INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- dependency:3.3.0:tree (default-cli) @ demo ---
[INFO] com.example:demo:jar:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:jar:2.7.33:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter:jar:2.7.33:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot:jar:2.7.33:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-autoconfigure:jar:2.7.33:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-logging:jar:2.7.33:compile
[INFO] |  |  |  +- ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:jar:1.2.13:compile
[INFO] |  |  |  |  \- ch.qos.logback:logback-core:jar:1.2.13:compile
[INFO] |  |  |  +- org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-to-slf4j:jar:2.17.2:compile
[INFO] |  |  |  |  \- org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api:jar:2.17.2:compile
[INFO] |  |  |  \- org.slf4j:jul-to-slf4j:jar:1.7.36:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- jakarta.annotation:jakarta.annotation-api:jar:1.3.5:compile
[INFO] |  |  \- org.yaml:snakeyaml:jar:1.30:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-json:jar:2.7.33:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:jar:2.13.5:compile
[INFO] |  |  |  +- com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:jar:2.13.5:compile
[INFO] |  |  |  \- com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:jar:2.13.5:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype:jackson-datatype-jdk8:jar:2.13.5:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype:jackson-datatype-jsr310:jar:2.13.5:compile
[INFO] |  |  \- com.fasterxml.jackson.module:jackson-module-parameter-names:jar:2.13.5:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat:jar:2.7.33:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core:jar:9.0.117:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-el:jar:9.0.117:compile
[INFO] |  |  \- org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-websocket:jar:9.0.117:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.springframework:spring-web:jar:5.3.48:compile
[INFO] |  |  \- org.springframework:spring-beans:jar:5.3.48:compile
[INFO] |  \- org.springframework:spring-webmvc:jar:5.3.48:compile
[INFO] |     +- org.springframework:spring-aop:jar:5.3.48:compile
[INFO] |     +- org.springframework:spring-context:jar:5.3.48:compile
[INFO] |     \- org.springframework:spring-expression:jar:5.3.48:compile
[INFO] \- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test:jar:2.7.33:test
[INFO]    +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-test:jar:2.7.33:test
[INFO]    +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-test-autoconfigure:jar:2.7.33:test
[INFO]    +- com.jayway.jsonpath:json-path:jar:2.7.0:test
[INFO]    |  +- net.minidev:json-smart:jar:2.4.11:test
[INFO]    |  |  \- net.minidev:accessors-smart:jar:2.4.11:test
[INFO]    |  |     \- org.ow2.asm:asm:jar:9.3:test
[INFO]    |  \- org.slf4j:slf4j-api:jar:1.7.36:compile
[INFO]    +- jakarta.xml.bind:jakarta.xml.bind-api:jar:2.3.3:test
[INFO]    |  \- jakarta.activation:jakarta.activation-api:jar:1.2.2:test
[INFO]    +- org.assertj:assertj-core:jar:3.22.0:test
[INFO]    +- org.hamcrest:hamcrest:jar:2.2:test
[INFO]    +- org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter:jar:5.8.2:test
[INFO]    |  +- org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-api:jar:5.8.2:test
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.opentest4j:opentest4j:jar:1.2.0:test
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.junit.platform:junit-platform-commons:jar:1.8.2:test
[INFO]    |  |  \- org.apiguardian:apiguardian-api:jar:1.1.2:test
[INFO]    |  +- org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-params:jar:5.8.2:test
[INFO]    |  \- org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-engine:jar:5.8.2:test
[INFO]    |     \- org.junit.platform:junit-platform-engine:jar:1.8.2:test
[INFO]    +- org.mockito:mockito-core:jar:4.5.1:test
[INFO]    |  +- net.bytebuddy:byte-buddy:jar:1.12.23:test
[INFO]    |  +- net.bytebuddy:byte-buddy-agent:jar:1.12.23:test
[INFO]    |  \- org.objenesis:objenesis:jar:3.2:test
[INFO]    +- org.mockito:mockito-junit-jupiter:jar:4.5.1:test
[INFO]    +- org.skyscreamer:jsonassert:jar:1.5.3:test
[INFO]    |  \- com.vaadin.external.google:android-json:jar:0.0.20131108.vaadin1:test
[INFO]    +- org.springframework:spring-core:jar:5.3.48:compile
[INFO]    |  \- org.springframework:spring-jcl:jar:5.3.48:compile
[INFO]    +- org.springframework:spring-test:jar:5.3.48:test
[INFO]    \- org.xmlunit:xmlunit-core:jar:2.9.1:test
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  0.417 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2026-04-24T14:26:46+09:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------