noob project to learn Spring/Hibernate [closed]

Question

I want to get my feet wet with Spring/Hibernate. But I think I move along faster and am more motivated if I am working with code rather than just reading a book chapter by chapter.

Does anyone have any good ideas for a home project to work on to learn these technologies? Any exercises that you might have worked on and thought useful?

Or perhaps you know of a book/tutorial that is based on a single project and walks you through it?

Answer 1

AppFuse is a Spring & Hibernate app designed to be used as skeleton for new projects. Install it, run maven, you have a working project you can study, inspect, debug, modify or add to as you wish. I've worked on a couple of enterprise apps that started as AppFuse.