I have not come across many sites that criticize Spring, so I am gonna post the first example I have come across. Rails is also criticized, yet again!!!

I think I’ve just encountered the best explaination of Spring and a super simple example of wiring and rewiring components. If you are a beginner and want to understand Spring, then you must read the first chapter from Beginning Spring Framework 2. The first chapter can be downloaded for free but I recommend purchasing this book if the first chapter is anything to go by…..

Useful tutorial to follow if you want to get into Spring — well just Spring, the mvc component and web form validation.

Spring Batch just got released. Spring Batch is able to monitor multi-step batch applications and take care of resource management. Great for processing large amounts of data, which I am fortunate not to be doing anymore.

BTW:

• The Blackboard import/export feature would benefit greatly from Spring Batch.