What should I learn first, Spring or Hibernate? [closed]

Answer 1

I learned Hibernate by itself first, and then I learned how Spring makes it much easier.

Answer 2

I think you should share your profile in a brief to get a better answer

However... Both hibernate and spring are hot and you will find them in all job requirements posted for enterprise applications- so you are on the right track as far as your selection choices is concerned.

IMHO- hibernate is trickier than Spring The reason for that is- Spring by virtue of its architecture is least invasive to the code There is little API to master. So to code in Spring- you don't have to really code anything beyond Java But to code hibernate- you need to know the Hibernate APIs and the gotchas of hibernate programming. The basics of hibernate are easy to master- but to learn the tricks and trivias- it takes time

If I was the hiring manager and were using hibnernate and Spring I would rather take someone who was stronger on Hibernate rather than someone who was stronger on Spring As far as spring is concerned- you as a contributing programmer- will have little to worry about Most likely the application will already have a framework in place- and you will have to plug in your contributions in.

But to code in hibernate- like I said before- its better if you have soem experience on this

PS: I know everyone has a different viewpoint on this- so you maybe getting more confused .I think- once you share a bit of your profile- it will help people give you a better advice. Good luck !!!

Answer 3

I wouldn't go for Struts these days.. If you're already considering Spring you should also take a look at Spring MVC, especially the newer Annotation-based Controllers are really nice to work with.

I would suggest learning Spring before Hibernate because it is much easier to learn if you stick to the core and maybe WebMVC, which is what I would recommend. Spring grew quite a bit in the last releases but the core is still simple and easy to understand.

Hibernate is a lot more complicated. I would recommending understanding the general purpose of an ORM like Hibernate, learn the hibernate annotations way of configuring hibernate and then go straight for the Spring/Hibernate Integration because it makes many things much easier. If your domain has more than just a few base types, you could also take a look at the GenericDAO pattern

Answer 4

I think you learn Spring, basics of RDBMS and then go for Hibernate, which will be easy for you to learn..

Answer 5

If the objective it to learn MVC framework and how to use ORM with that framework, then logical way to learn is Spring and then Hibernate. In my opinion, in that way you will be able to grasp the concepts easily

Answer 6

the same here, I learned hibernate first and than Spring, i think it is the right order, do some small examples from youtube, see how you configure hibernate, create a session and do some tricks with your database, at least basic stuff. then go and see how to configure spring with hibernate.