I will update this real soon now to be better organized along with new resources.
Springsource documentation
SpringSource Tool Suite™ (STS)
Developing with Eclipse and Maven book
Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
Spring Persistence with Hibernate (Beginning)
Hibernate Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert’s Voice in Open Source)
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Title |
Author[s] |
Comments |
|---|---|---|
Head First Java  |
Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates | Excellent Series! |
Head First EJB |
Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates | |
Head First Design Patterns |
Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra | |
Head First Servlets and JSP |
Bryan Basham, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates | |
The Book |
Those four guys | Buy it, read it, use it, memorize it |
Effective Java |
Joshua Bloch | Buy it and apply it |
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Title |
Author[s] |
Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Rob Harrop, Jan Machacek | Decent book | |
Spring in Action (In Action series) 
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Craig Walls, Ryan Breidenbach | |
Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development (Programmer to Programmer)  |
Rod Johnson | |
Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework
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Rod Johnson, Juergen Hoeller, Alef Arendsen, Thomas Risberg, Colin Sampaleanu |
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Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB
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Rod Johnson, Juergen Hoeller | |
Spring: A Developer’s Notebook
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Bruise Tate | Very Bad book. Avoid this |
The Spring Framework : Building Applications Faster and Lighter
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Keith Donald | |
Expert Spring MVC and Web Flow
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Seth Ladd, Darren Davison, Steven Devijver, Colin Yates |
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Title |
Author[s] |
Comments |
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Hibernate Quickly
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Patrick Peak, Nick Heudecker | |
Hibernate In Action
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Bauer and King | |
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Hibernate: A Developer’s Notebook
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James Elliott | |
Pro Hibernate 3 |
Jeff Linwood, Dave Minter | |
Professional Hibernate (Programmer to Programmer) |
Eric Pugh, Joseph D. Gradecki | Awful. Avoid this one |
Hibernate : A J2EE(TM) Developer’s Guide |
Will Iverson |
Incredible tips and straightforward, thank you for sharing