<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
         <epsdk.version>2.4.0</epsdk.version>
         <jackson.version>2.9.8</jackson.version>
-        <springframework.version>4.2.9.RELEASE</springframework.version>
+        <springframework.version>4.3.22.RELEASE</springframework.version>
         <hibernate.version>4.3.11.Final</hibernate.version>
         <!-- Skip assembling the zip; assemble via mvn -Dskipassembly=false .. -->
         <skipassembly>true</skipassembly>
             <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
             <version>1.7.12</version>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-            <artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
-            <version>${springframework.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
+
+        <!-- springframework to override epsdk-app-common's and epsdk-core's versions -->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
                 </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-            <artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
-            <version>${springframework.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
             <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
             <version>${springframework.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
+            <version>${springframework.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
+            <version>${springframework.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
+            <version>${springframework.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+
     </dependencies>
 </project>
 
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
         <epsdk.version>2.4.0</epsdk.version>
-        <springframework.version>4.2.9.RELEASE</springframework.version>
+        <springframework.version>4.3.22.RELEASE</springframework.version>
         <hibernate.version>4.3.11.Final</hibernate.version>
         <jackson.version>2.9.8</jackson.version>
         <jersey.version>2.27</jersey.version>
             <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
             <version>1.7.12</version>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-            <artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
-            <version>${springframework.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
+
+        <!-- springframework to override epsdk-app-common's and epsdk-core's versions -->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
             <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
             <version>${springframework.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
+            <version>${springframework.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
+            <version>${springframework.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
+            <version>${springframework.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
             <artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId>
 
     <artifactId>automationTest</artifactId>
     <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <properties>
-        <springframework.version>4.2.9.RELEASE</springframework.version>
+        <springframework.version>4.3.22.RELEASE</springframework.version>
         <jersey.version>2.27</jersey.version>
         <jackson.version>2.9.7</jackson.version>
         <aspectj.version>1.8.10</aspectj.version>
 
     <properties>
         <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
         <epsdk.version>1.3.0</epsdk.version>
-        <springframework.version>4.3.4.RELEASE</springframework.version>
+        <springframework.version>4.3.22.RELEASE</springframework.version>
         <hibernate.version>5.3.4.Final</hibernate.version>
         <!-- Skip assembling the zip by default -->
         <skipassembly>true</skipassembly>