I hope someone will give me some clear answers for the following questions, considering the project I'm going to do.
#1. Brief explanations about both with any simple examples.
#2. Advantages & disadvantages of both
#3. Should I use both of them or I just need Hibernate?. How to decide?.
#4. Any conclusions
#5. Best books for beginners (I'd like to know if there any Head First books for these)
#1. Brief explanations about both with any simple examples
Well these serve two different purposes. Spring can be considered as a technology stack where you have support for multiple tiers/usage of the application (Web MVC, AOP etc...). Hibernate is a ORM tool where you used to map domain classes to relational database. And Spring itself has a good support for Hibernate by providing common templates. So you can use Spring for web tier (and any other requirements like AOP etc...) and use Hibernate for the persistence tier. I think this clarifies your next 3 questions?
#5. Best books for beginners (I'd like to know if there any Head First books for these)
No HF books as far as I know for these. But I think the documentation itself of each is very rich in that you can do a fairly good job with them.
At the moment, I'm studying both Head First OOA&D & Servlets & JSP books. I think that, with the time, I will realize how to use these technologies for my work.
Thank you very much for your explanation. That helped me.
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