diff --git a/handling-spring-static-resources/pom.xml b/handling-spring-static-resources/pom.xml
index fb29bf1a3d..2a78e4cc98 100644
--- a/handling-spring-static-resources/pom.xml
+++ b/handling-spring-static-resources/pom.xml
@@ -1,84 +1,91 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 	<groupId>org.baeldung</groupId>
 	<artifactId>handling-spring-static-resources</artifactId>
 	<name>handling-spring-static-resources</name>
+	<version>0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
 	<packaging>war</packaging>
-	<version>1.0.0-BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
-	<properties>
-		<java-version>1.7</java-version>
-		<org.springframework-version>4.1.0.RELEASE</org.springframework-version>
-		<org.springframework.security-version>3.2.0.RELEASE</org.springframework.security-version>
-		<org.aspectj-version>1.8.1</org.aspectj-version>
-		<org.slf4j-version>1.6.1</org.slf4j-version>
-		<!-- javax jsp -->
-		<javax.servlet.jsp-api.version>2.3.2-b01</javax.servlet.jsp-api.version>
-	</properties>
+
 	<dependencies>
+		<!-- Spring Security -->
+
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
+			<version>${org.springframework.security.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
+			<version>${org.springframework.security.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId>
+			<version>${org.springframework.security.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
+
 		<!-- Spring -->
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-			<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
-			<version>4.1.0.RELEASE</version>
+			<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
+			<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
 			<exclusions>
-				<!-- Exclude Commons Logging in favor of SLF4j -->
 				<exclusion>
-					<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
 					<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+					<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
 				</exclusion>
 			</exclusions>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-			<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
-			<version>${org.springframework-version}</version>
-		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
-			<artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
-			<version>3.2.5.RELEASE</version>
-			<scope>runtime</scope>
+			<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
+			<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-			<artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
-			<version>4.1.0.RELEASE</version>
+			<artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
+			<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
-		<!-- AspectJ -->
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
+			<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
+			<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
+			<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-expression</artifactId>
+			<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
+
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
+			<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
+			<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
+
+		<!-- AOP -->
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
 			<artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
 			<version>${org.aspectj-version}</version>
 		</dependency>
-
-		<!-- Logging -->
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-			<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
-			<version>${org.slf4j-version}</version>
-		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-			<artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
-			<version>${org.slf4j-version}</version>
-			<scope>runtime</scope>
-		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-			<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
-			<version>${org.slf4j-version}</version>
-			<scope>runtime</scope>
-		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>log4j</groupId>
-			<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
-			<version>1.2.16</version>
-			<scope>runtime</scope>
-		</dependency>
-
-		<!-- @Inject -->
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
 			<artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
@@ -101,31 +108,15 @@
 			<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
 			<version>1.2</version>
 		</dependency>
-		<!-- Taglibs -->
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
-			<artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId>
-			<version>3.2.5.RELEASE</version>
-		</dependency>
-		<!-- Jackson JSON Processor -->
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
 			<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-			<version>2.4.1</version>
-		</dependency>
-
-		<!-- Rome Atom+RSS -->
-
-		<!-- JSR 303 with Hibernate Validator -->
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
-			<artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
-			<version>1.0.0.GA</version>
+			<version>${jackson.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
 			<artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
-			<version>4.1.0.Final</version>
+			<version>${hibernate-validator.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<!-- Joda Time Library -->
@@ -141,13 +132,31 @@
 			<artifactId>handlebars</artifactId>
 			<version>1.3.2</version>
 		</dependency>
-		<!-- Security (used for CSRF protection only) -->
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
-			<artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
-			<version>${org.springframework.security-version}</version>
-		</dependency>
 
+		<!-- logging -->
+
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+			<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+			<version>${org.slf4j.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+			<artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
+			<version>${logback.version}</version>
+			<!-- <scope>runtime</scope> -->
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+			<artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
+			<version>${org.slf4j.version}</version>
+			<!-- <scope>runtime</scope> --> <!-- some spring dependencies need to compile against jcl -->
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency> <!-- needed to bridge to slf4j for projects that use the log4j APIs directly -->
+			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+			<artifactId>log4j-over-slf4j</artifactId>
+			<version>${org.slf4j.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
 
 	</dependencies>
 
@@ -160,4 +169,54 @@
 			</resource>
 		</resources>
 	</build>
+
+	<properties>
+		<java-version>1.7</java-version>
+		<org.springframework-version>4.1.0.RELEASE</org.springframework-version>
+		<org.springframework.security-version>3.2.0.RELEASE</org.springframework.security-version>
+		<org.aspectj-version>1.8.1</org.aspectj-version>
+		<org.slf4j-version>1.6.1</org.slf4j-version>
+		<javax.servlet.jsp-api.version>2.3.2-b01</javax.servlet.jsp-api.version>
+
+		<!-- Spring -->
+		<org.springframework.version>4.1.1.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
+		<org.springframework.security.version>3.2.5.RELEASE</org.springframework.security.version>
+
+		<!-- persistence -->
+		<hibernate.version>4.3.7.Final</hibernate.version>
+		<mysql-connector-java.version>5.1.32</mysql-connector-java.version>
+		<spring-data-jpa.version>1.6.2.RELEASE</spring-data-jpa.version>
+
+		<!-- marshalling -->
+
+		<jackson.version>2.4.2</jackson.version>
+
+		<!-- logging -->
+		<org.slf4j.version>1.7.7</org.slf4j.version>
+		<logback.version>1.1.2</logback.version>
+
+		<!-- various -->
+		<hibernate-validator.version>5.1.3.Final</hibernate-validator.version>
+
+		<!-- util -->
+		<guava.version>18.0</guava.version>
+		<commons-lang3.version>3.3.2</commons-lang3.version>
+
+		<!-- testing -->
+		<org.hamcrest.version>1.3</org.hamcrest.version>
+		<junit.version>4.11</junit.version>
+		<mockito.version>1.10.8</mockito.version>
+
+		<httpcore.version>4.3.3</httpcore.version>
+		<httpclient.version>4.3.5</httpclient.version>
+
+		<rest-assured.version>2.3.4</rest-assured.version>
+
+		<!-- Maven plugins -->
+		<maven-compiler-plugin.version>3.2</maven-compiler-plugin.version>
+		<maven-war-plugin.version>2.5</maven-war-plugin.version>
+		<maven-surefire-plugin.version>2.17</maven-surefire-plugin.version>
+		<cargo-maven2-plugin.version>1.4.10</cargo-maven2-plugin.version>
+	</properties>
+
 </project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spring-all/src/main/java/org/baeldung/springevents/asynchronous/AsynchronousSpringEventsConfig.java b/spring-all/src/main/java/org/baeldung/springevents/asynchronous/AsynchronousSpringEventsConfig.java
index 93f61bf517..082a986974 100644
--- a/spring-all/src/main/java/org/baeldung/springevents/asynchronous/AsynchronousSpringEventsConfig.java
+++ b/spring-all/src/main/java/org/baeldung/springevents/asynchronous/AsynchronousSpringEventsConfig.java
@@ -12,9 +12,10 @@ import org.springframework.core.task.SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor;
 public class AsynchronousSpringEventsConfig {
 
     @Bean(name = "applicationEventMulticaster")
-    public static ApplicationEventMulticaster simpleApplicationEventMulticaster() {
+    public ApplicationEventMulticaster simpleApplicationEventMulticaster() {
         final SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster simpleApplicationEventMulticaster = new SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster();
         simpleApplicationEventMulticaster.setTaskExecutor(new SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor());
         return simpleApplicationEventMulticaster;
     }
+
 }
diff --git a/spring-all/src/main/java/org/baeldung/springevents/synchronous/CustomSpringEventPublisher.java b/spring-all/src/main/java/org/baeldung/springevents/synchronous/CustomSpringEventPublisher.java
index decbcf446a..4569de1d5e 100644
--- a/spring-all/src/main/java/org/baeldung/springevents/synchronous/CustomSpringEventPublisher.java
+++ b/spring-all/src/main/java/org/baeldung/springevents/synchronous/CustomSpringEventPublisher.java
@@ -15,4 +15,5 @@ public class CustomSpringEventPublisher {
         final CustomSpringEvent customSpringEvent = new CustomSpringEvent(this, message);
         applicationEventPublisher.publishEvent(customSpringEvent);
     }
+
 }