Getting started with Spring MVC

If you are looking for a tutorial to let you have a first contact with the Spring MVC take a look on this post from Jeroen van Wilgenburg: Getting started with Spring-web-mvc and the Spring IDE-plugin – creating a simple web application.

Simplified DAO with Spring and Hibernate

I know that it is nothing new for the Spring and Hibernate developers, but it is a good entry point for those frameworks or even better, what you can get from them.
Take a look on this article from Unruly Rambling: Spring and Hibernate, Simplify the DAO layer and this one from ONJava: Persistence in Spring.