I highly recommend the books:
Java Persistence with Hibernate
and
Spring in Action

I have both and they are well worth the cost.

One point to keep in mind is that Spring is really about 8 different
frameworks, all of which are more or less related to their main
bean-wiring framework.

Good luck.


--
Bob Rowden
Sun Certified Java Programmer
Sun Certified Java Developer
Sun Certified Web Component Developer
+1 916 276 5313 (direct)



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