can any one tell me which is the best way to learn spring

Question

hi,

can any one tell me the best way to learn spring.

i have sound work experience in struts. and little experience in jsp and hibernate

thanks in advance

Answer 1

Start reading Martin Fowler's Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern and then start reading Spring's doc (I've found the doc is one of the best books).

Of course following some tutorials on internet will help but I've found reading first the basics is the best for understanding the framework

Answer 2

A book will be helpful.

Well, I have the habit of learning from Internet.

Eg: The Complete Spring Tutorial - http://www.roseindia.net/spring/index.shtml

Answer 3

I found Spring in Action to be an excellent guide

Answer 4

I would also recommend you to go through the spring documents. You can also explore Spring MVC fast Tutorial Anyway, if you are a pro to other frameworks, you can also go through this tutorial to have hands on http ://raibledesigns.com/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=SpringControllers.

Answer 5

The best way is to use it!

Write a simple app using Spring (use the standard docs) and then go back and rewrite it. Write lots of code.

Spring Recipes is also a good book.

Answer 6

I'm not so sure about how relevent it is anymore since Rod Johnson and the EJB3 crew have joined forces and seem to be heading in the same direction together. EJB3 now offers dependency injection using annotations rather than yet another XML configuration file.

Answer 7

the distribution should include a project called the petstore clinic. This will give you a very good overview on how to use latest techniques with full spring stack.