diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 59fdd7629..694650a5f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -114,38 +114,31 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
-			<version>${spring-framework.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
-			<version>${spring-framework.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
-			<version>${spring-framework.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
-			<version>${spring-framework.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<!-- used for EhCacheCacheManager -->
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
-			<version>${spring-framework.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
-			<version>${spring-framework.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-oxm</artifactId>
-			<version>${spring-framework.version}</version>
 			<exclusions>
 				<exclusion>
 					<groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
@@ -156,7 +149,6 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-jms</artifactId>
-			<version>${spring-framework.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 
@@ -269,7 +261,6 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
-			<version>${spring-framework.version}</version>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
@@ -310,42 +301,15 @@
 		</dependency>
 	</dependencies>
 	<dependencyManagement>
+		<!-- With the Spring Framework Bill Of Material (BOM), we no longer need 
+			to specify the version attribute when depending on Spring Framework artifacts. -->
 		<dependencies>
-			<!--
-				Force the version of all the spring jars (core, beans, context, ...) 
-				pulled by spring-data-jpa:1.3.4.RELEASE to 3.2.x when spring-data pulls 
-				the 3.1.x versions to prevent some misbehaviors of maven which sometimes 
-				pulls both 3.2.x and 3.1.x versions of spring-core, spring-beans and spring-context
-			-->
-			<dependency>
-					<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-					<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
-					<version>${spring-framework.version}</version>
-			</dependency>
 			<dependency>
 				<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-				<artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
-				<version>${spring-framework.version}</version>
-			</dependency>
-			<dependency>
-				<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-				<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
-				<version>${spring-framework.version}</version>
-			</dependency>
-			<dependency>
-				<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-				<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
-				<version>${spring-framework.version}</version>
-			</dependency>
-			<dependency>
-				<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-				<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
-				<version>${spring-framework.version}</version>
-			</dependency>
-			<dependency>
-				<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-				<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
+				<artifactId>spring-framework-bom</artifactId>
 				<version>${spring-framework.version}</version>
+				<type>pom</type>
+				<scope>import</scope>
 			</dependency>
 		</dependencies>
 	</dependencyManagement>