Spring Learning Path

[martincastell]

Hello, this is my first post. I've been using java for 3 years now, but don't have many experience with J2EE, just the basic Servlet-JSP thing.
I would like to adopt a framework and Spring sounds pretty good to me, I've been doing the tutorials and reading articles, trying to make some code of my own, but it has been really hard to acomplish what I want.
So my question is:

This is where I am: Really basic tutorial level knowledge of Spring.

This is where I would like to be: Robust knowledge of Spring MVC, using Hibernate. And later putting some AJAX library on top of it, maybe DWR.

Where to start? What's the path I should take?

PD: I've been searching for a book but most of them cover Spring1.2, Pro Spring has very good reviews. Would you recomend buying?. Do you know about a Spring2 book available.

Thanks in advance.

[karldmoore]

This is where I am: Really basic tutorial level knowledge of Spring.

This is where I would like to be: Robust knowledge of Spring MVC, using Hibernate. And later putting some AJAX library on top of it, maybe DWR.

Where to start? What's the path I should take?

If you are after getting upto speed I would recommend the reference manual and the examples that ship with Spring. Petclinic would be a good starting point. As for SpringMVC there is a tutorial, a few people have recommended (might be a little out of date). The hibernate reference manual would also be useful along with "Java Persistence with Hibernate".
http://www.springframework.org/docs/MVC-step-by-step/Spring-MVC-step-by-step.html


I've been searching for a book but most of them cover Spring1.2, Pro Spring has very good reviews. Would you recomend buying?. Do you know about a Spring2 book available.

There was a discussion of books here.
http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=31398

[dr_pompeii]

hi

it is a long way to learn all, but, it must be done

for Spirng, the book that i used and in my opinion is the best for beginners-intermedium level is Pro Spring

for hibernate , Hibernate in action , the second edition hs other name, see in manning books, for information


If you are after getting upto speed I would recommend the reference manual and the examples that ship with Spring.
i am agree, if you dont have any knowledge about Spring, you first should buy a book, or read the Spring reference documentation (but is not deeply to learn, how reference is nice)

for Spring MVC , i can suggest a book in 50%, because is out of date but for concepts is useful Expert Spring MVC and Web Flow , again the examples of the spring distribution are pretty nice how complement after of all theory

for ajax, mmm, i work with DWR , i learnt from this book Pro Ajax and Java Frameworks.

of course you have all the reference documentation of each home page from each tool/framework

i hope this help you

regards

[martincastell]

Thanks for the input guys :cool:

[karldmoore]

Thanks for the input guys :cool:

I did forget to say, one of the best resources is this forum :). There are lots of questions and answers that I refer to all the time.