Resources

Learn

• Read the official Spring Reference Manual, a clean and simple way of learning more about the Spring Framework.
  
  
• Get a good introduction to Spring Framework in "The Spring series, Part 1: Introduction to the Spring framework" (developerWorks, June 2005).
  
  
• Get a simple explanation of the Spring Web MVC framework in "The Spring series, Part 3: Swing into Spring MVC" (developerWorks, September 2005).
  
  
• Read "Why Spring JDBC?," a neat little article on Spring JDBC by Vikram V.
  
  
• Read "Introduction to the Spring Framework" by one of the first and most active members of Spring design team.
  
  
• Read "JSF KickStart: A Simple JavaServer Faces Application," a tutorial that shows you an example of a JSF application developed without any special IDE.
  
  
• Read "A Quick Introduction to JavaServer Faces Plus Apache MyFaces Extensions," a good series of JSF tutorials, including downloadable JSF applications for testing on your own server.
  
  
• See the Web Tool Platform 1.5's list of JSF features (JSF support is 0.5 at this point).
  
  
• See Sun's JSF tag reference documentation for the h: and f: tags.
  
  
• Read the article "Deploy J2EE applications on Apache Geronimo" (developerWorks, January 2006).
  
  
• Join the Apache Geronimo mailing list.
  
  
• Check out the developerWorks Apache Geronimo project area for articles, tutorials, and other resources to help you get started developing with Geronimo today.
  
  
• Find helpful resources for beginners and experienced users at the Get started now with Apache Geronimo section of developerWorks.
  
  
• Check out the IBM® Support for Apache Geronimo offering, which lets you develop Geronimo applications backed by world-class IBM support.
  
  
• Visit the developerWorks Open source zone for extensive how-to information, tools, and project updates to help you develop with open source technologies and use them with IBM's products.
  
  
• Browse all the Apache articles and free Apache tutorials available in the developerWorks Open source zone.
  
  
• Browse for books on these and other technical topics at the Safari bookstore.
  
  
• Get an RSS feed for this series. (Find out more about RSS.)
  
  

Get products and technologies

• Get JSR 127, the JavaServer Faces specification, straight from Sun.
  
  
• Visit the Apache MyFaces Project Web site.
  
  
• Get the following Apache goodies:
  • Geronimo J2EE application server
  • MyFaces JSF implementation
  • Tomahawk JSF components for MyFaces
  • Sandbox, an incubator for Tomahawk components
  
  
• Download Eclipse from Eclipse.org.
  
  
• Get Eclipse Web Tools Platform from the Eclipse WTP Project home page.
  
  
• Download the latest version of Apache Geronimo.
  
  
• Innovate your next open source development project with IBM trial software, available for download or on DVD.
  
  
• Download your free copy of IBM WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition V1.0 -- a lightweight J2EE application server built on Apache Geronimo open source technology that is designed to help you accelerate your development and deployment efforts.
  
  

Discuss

• Participate in the discussion forum.
  
  
• Stay up to date on Geronimo developments at the Apache Geronimo blog.
  
  
• Get involved in the developerWorks community by participating in developerWorks blogs.
  
  

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• Before you start
• Getting ready
• Reviewing the MyFaces JSF implementation of devSignup
• Adding Spring MVC to devSignup
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