diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0ae09ab3e8..ffd5e90296 100755
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@
             <dependency>
 		        <groupId>org.apache.xbean</groupId>
 		        <artifactId>xbean-spring</artifactId>
-		        <version>2.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		        <version>${xbean-version}</version>
 		        <optional>true</optional>
 		        <exclusions>
 		          <exclusion>
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
                 <artifactId>spring</artifactId>
-		        <version>2.0-rc1</version>
+		        <version>2.0-rc2</version>
                 <optional>true</optional>
 		        <exclusions>
 		          <exclusion>
@@ -960,5 +960,6 @@
         <xmlbeans-version>2.0.0-beta1</xmlbeans-version>
         <xmlpull-version>1.1.3.4d_b4_min</xmlpull-version>
         <xstream-version>1.1.2</xstream-version>
+        <xbean-version>2.5</xbean-version>
     </properties>
 </project>