Learning Spring and Java

[Kelemvor]

So we have a new system we're taking over at work and it's coded in Spring. I've been tasked with learning Spring so I can understand what this program does. Problem is, I don't know Java either.

I can read Java and follow along with the basics but I'm not a programmer. I'm looking for the best way for me to quickly get as up to speed as I can with both Java and Spring.

Since Spring is an extension of Java, I assume I should learn Java before I try to jump right into Spring...?

Can anyone recommend any good video based tutorials that would be a good place to start? I see there are a ton of Java videos on Youtube but I'd rather find a good series that will walk me through a number of things than just randomly finding videos and hoping the guy knows what he's talking about.

If they use Eclipse, that's great since I have that on my PC as well.

Thanks for any recommendations.

 

[dwell]

You need to understand Java before trying to understand Spring. You at the very least need to know how constructors and setters/getters work or Spring won't make much sense.

At its core, Spring is very simple to understand (unless you mean Spring MVC which is a whole other beast) but if you don't understand the problem it tries to solve it won't make a lot of sense because it takes a bit of a mental shift to grok.

For tutorials just check out the springsource site:

http://www.springsource.org/tutorials