Well, I am a couple of weeks into setting this up and now realized that the question that I had asked is invalid....
I assumed that one could not use the springsource tutorial for RAD and also RAD might have some templates ready for setting up MVC.
I now know that the first part is wrong for sure since I am half way thru the setup. As far as the second part is concerned, I need to go over the website that you had send
http://springide.org/updatesite/ to check if it would speeden up the setup of Spring MVC