General question regarding Spring and Hibernate.

[ven jovovich]

Hi all,
My manager has assigned me to a project which involves both Spring
and Hibernate. I know absolutely nothing of either. Please suggest which one to
start with. I am really confused, I don't even quite know if one of these is loosely
related or dependent on the other.
Currently I am familiar with core Java, Servlets, JSP and Oracle SQL, PL/SQL.
Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Ven.

[Surendra Kumar]

Both are open source frameworks and are different.
Spring is a DI (Dependency Injection) framework and Hibernate is an ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) framework.

Spring supports Hibernate so you can use it with Spring.

There are many online tutorials/articles on these.
Please search. A book can also help. (Books like Spring in Action, Hibernate in Action etc.)

[ven jovovich]

Thanks Surendra, but would you suggest starting with one before the other?

[Surendra Kumar]

You can start with anything. Both are independent. You need to understand both to integrate each other.

[ven jovovich]

Noted. Thanks.

[Jayesh A Lalwani]

Are you familiar with Hibernate already? Are you familiar with JDBC? JPA?

I would suggest learning
1) Core Spring
2) JDBC
3) Hibernate
4) JPA
5) how Spring works with Hibernate
6) How Spring works with JPA
7) Spring Data