Need Fast and good learning Spring?

I need to learn spring and EJB ASAP ... I know Struts and Hibernate but not have deep knowledge of it.. Does Spring required Struts to learn before it??? I need some good simple and easy languages book from which I can learn both the technologies..plus if you know any online stuff please paste that also...

Thanks

Kaustubh

Kaustubh G Sharma wrote:I need to learn spring and EJB ASAP ... I know Struts and Hibernate but not have deep knowledge of it.. Does Spring required Struts to learn before it??? I need some good simple and easy languages book from which I can learn both the technologies..plus if you know any online stuff please paste that also...

Thanks

Kaustubh

That sounds like a great Google search. ;)

Struts is a web framework. The Spring framework is not a web framework, so completely different. SpringSource does have Spring MVC as a module that is part of Spring that can be used in the web layer and is similar to Struts in that is follows the MVC2 pattern with a Front Controller Servlet called the DispatcherServlet and Controller classes that are similar but POJO based like Struts Action class. So, you should understand the architecture.

Mark

As you said Spring is not a web framework like Struts..... Also heard it follows 8 layer architecture....So should i learn it separately or as you said the front part is same as struts so I can learn it from keeping struts in mind ?

Kaustubh G Sharma wrote:As you said Spring is not a web framework like Struts..... Also heard it follows 8 layer architecture....So should i learn it separately or as you said the front part is same as struts so I can learn it from keeping struts in mind ?

I'd first learn the core. Creating Beans, starting the Spring Container, AOP, then add data access, then go to the client technologies like Spring MVC.

Mark

Hey,

I have found Spring in Action to be a good book and it covers all the basics with nice examples.
That's where I began with Spring.

Sean

I have lot few Spring books but could never find simplest one.
For me best was -
Spring by Example by David Winterfeldt.
You can find tutorials on internet too.Really awesome book.
I think dont start but tech together unless required.

I need book alike SCJP certification from kathy and bert....I only understand easy language my memory is very rusty and i can't remember all technical stuff otherwise I have to carry a technical dictionary with me..