Starting with Spring framework

Question

I'm planning to start learning Spring but when I open any spring tutorial, I find many modules like Spring REST, spring MVC etc.

I'm really confused on how to start with spring, from which module to start, how are these modules related to each other, should I go through all the modules??

I tried searching many sites to answer my questions but couldn't find satisfactory ans, so thought of posting here. It would be great if somebody can guide me in this regard.

Answer 1

Spring is a java framework which provides solutions to several problems. So i guess it really depends on what you are planning to learn. The most important to learn first is understanding what Dependency Injection and inversion of control means. When you understand this you will understand why the rest of the frameworks are designed as it is. i suppose learn Spring IoC first since this is basically the core component of Spring Framework. Link: http://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/beans.html

After learning Spring IoC, you can go on learning each specific Spring frameworks which address specific problems. For example:

Are you interested in Web development? --> Spring MVC
Are you interested in storing data to database? --> Spring Data
Are you interested in developing web services / web apis --> Spring REST

http://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/overview.html