Spring Statemachine 1.0.0.RC1 is built and tested with JDK 8(all artifacts have JDK 7 compatibility) and Spring Framework 4.1.7.RELEASE and doesn’t require any other dependencies outside of Spring Framework within its core system.

Other optional parts like Chapter 21, Using Distributed States has dependencies to a Zookeeper, while Part V, “State Machine Examples” has dependencies to spring-shell and spring-boot which pulls other dependencies beyond framework itself.