What is the prerequisite when try to learn the spring or struts framework?

Question

I think these technologies are really prior to java industry

Instead

Just skip Struts and learn Struts2 or even better Spring MVC since you are going to learn Spring – Mineral

The main prerequisite is having a brain ;) – Zrike

I'd say a JEE brain, a JBrain!! – Cretan

Answer 1

I'm not sure about struts, but for Spring, it helps to know about dependency injection and inversion of control, XML, and JavaBeans.

If I had to recommend a book, it would be Spring in Action

UPDATE

It's been pointed out to me that Spring in Action is about Spring 2.0, which it is. Spring 2.0 is almost four years old. Spring's first-party documentation makes wonderful reading. Check out the reference documentation for great prose and the Javadocs if you need more in-depth information.

Ovariectomy

Agreed. The Spring documentation, which you can get as a PDF, is very good and has a lot of examples. Pretend it's a book and read the whole thing. – Americanist

Answer 2

A good knowledge of Core Java, Servlets and JSP is pretty much more than enough you need..

Loya

Answer 3

In my opinion, the Spring in Action book is a bit behind the times now (Spring 2.0) and doesn't include any of the nifty new features in 2.5 or 3.0. I would start with the spring documentation.

Cherish

Answer 4

Only in reference to Spring. If your not familiar with dependancy injection, then spend a bit of time reading. I'd also suggest that your java knowledge includes being comfortable with Annotations, Reflection and even Aspect orientated programming. Most Spring books fail to keep pace, so unless your forced to use a particular version Spring 3.0 should be your starting point as this has many additions which can save a lot of time.

Messina

Answer 5

In reference to spring it is mandatory to have a little knowledge of J2SE, J2EE(Servlets, JDBC little bit), XML Schema and rest of the things you can learn while studying Spring Framework. Most of all JAVA knowledge is required :)

City