New to Spring and Hibernate. Which to start?

[Anupama Sudhakaran]

Hello Everyone,
i am new to Spring and Hibernate. Can anyone suggest whether i should start learning Spring first or Hibernate first? Also if anyone could suggest Books for both Spring and Hibernate would be really helpful.
Thank you in advance

[Ankit Garg]

I learned Hibernate from Pro Hibernate 3 and its a good book. Hibernate is ORM tool which is completely different from Spring. You can learn anything first, I know Hibernate but don't have much idea about Spring, but I'm sure you can also learn Spring before Hibernate...

[Joe San]

Both are totally different. spring is an Application Framework which you can use to build your business logic (actually much more than that). Hibernate is an ORM framework and you can use spring to couple Hibernate (as a matter of fact any ORM framework) and you will end up with a whole bunch of benefits.

[Aleksandar Babic]

You need to learn them separately first and it doesn't matter in which order.
After that I suggest that you try to create some test app that will include both frameworks.
There are lot of examples on the net like this one
http://www.vaannila.com/spring/spring-hibernate-integration-1.html

[Anupama Sudhakaran]

what all must i be knowing before starting on either Spring or Hibernate? i have a little knowledge of Java as in i know core and J2EE and a little of J2ME

[Aleksandar Babic]

Knowledge of Java/J2EE is essential since those are java frameworks. You don't need j2me.
Best way to learn is to practice so grab some examples and start. The longer you think the more time you lose ;)

[Paul Wallace]

To get a quick start on both Spring and Hibernate and get productive while you learn, it might be work looking at Grails.

[Larry Chung]

Anupama Sudhakaran wrote:Hello Everyone,
i am new to Spring and Hibernate. Can anyone suggest whether i should start learning Spring first or Hibernate first? Also if anyone could suggest Books for both Spring and Hibernate would be really helpful.
Thank you in advance

I can tell you of one book to use and one book to stay away from.

An excellent tutorial for Spring and Hibernate is another Apress book called, "Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach" because it identifies many of the usual functions of Java applications and then describe the Spring solution with sample code. The book's chapter 9 will give an easy to to digest lesson on integrating Hibernate with Spring. The great thing about the book (and Spring) is that you don't need an application server to run a lot of the sample code in the book.

The one book that you should not consider is "Spring, A Developer's Notebook". Do not even read it because it will waste your time and confuse you.

[Anujit Chatterjee]

I strongly recommend 'Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach' for any beginner into Spring.
Personally I started with Spring in Action which is a good book as well.
Pro Hibernate 3 is a good book for Hibernate.
Start any one of them and be sure to do some small projects yourself.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Anupama Sudhakaran wrote:Can anyone suggest whether i should start learning Spring first or Hibernate first?

While you could go in either order, if you are very new to Java, I recommend starting with Hibernate. It's a bit more self contained since it deals with just one layer of an application.

Larry Chung wrote:The one book that you should not consider is "Spring, A Developer's Notebook". Do not even read it because it will waste your time and confuse you.

While I like the Developer's Notebook series, it is a "love it or hate it" style of book. I also find it is easier to read if you are a more experienced developer.