I am looking to start work on a brand-new project, something I\'ve been thinking about for a while as my first independent sellable project. It\'s broadly speaking a web-based s
i personally would definitely recommend looking into spring, i've found it's saved me countless hours. hibernate is also useful if you need an ORM layer (and spring has nice integrations with hibernate too). they're certainly not the 'only' or even the 'right' way to do things (that's quite subjective) but they have both saved me time and effort, especially spring.