Spring by Example Version 1.5

This book covers Spring Framework from basic to advanced, including Spring MVC,, Spring JPA, Spring IoC container, Spring AOP and AspectJ, Spring data access support, Spring transaction management, Spring Web and Portlet MVC, Spring testing support, Spring support for remoting, EJB, JMS, JMX, Email, scheduling, and scripting languages. This book also introduces several common Spring Portfolio projects that will bring significant value to your application development, including Spring Security, Spring Web Flow, and Spring Web Services.

The topics in this book are introduced by complete and real-world code examples that you can follow step by step. Instead of abstract descriptions on complex concepts, you will find live examples in this book. When you start a new project, you can consider copying the code and configuration files from this book, and then modifying them for your needs. This can save you a great deal of work over creating a project from scratch.

Spring was not developed in a boardroom and as a result it has a vibrant and sometimes confusing context. This book will first introduce you to the core concepts behind Spring and how Spring will make your life easier (and more interesting!). Spring is built around a few key patterns and some relatively new concepts in Java programming. In this book after the introduction, each article will be based on a working example available from the Spring by Example Subversion repository.

After you finish the first link, go ahead to the 2nd link for more advanced topics by Meyyappan Muthuraman.