I'm afraid there is nothing else you can do than trying to use spring 2.0. To be more comfortable, you can download the sources from github, change the pom to point to the 2.X spring-version. After that, see if it still compliles and run "mvn clean install -Pcheck" on the root-folder where the root-pom is present. All tests we have will be run so you can see immediately where the issues will arise.