title: Freemarker + Spring MVC tutorial
body: <p>I'm new to Spring MVC and Freemarker. So far I've used JSF and I have some experience with Ruby on Rails (concerning the RESTful pattern..). </p>
  
  <p>I have my Spring web app configured and am now ready to try some basic stuff like forms and so on but I can't find any tutorials on using Spring MVC with freemarker. Since I have neither experience with Spring MVC nor Freemarker I'm quite lost where to start...</p>
  
  <p>Should I try to understand freemarker first? I feel like Spring MVC, appart from the taglibs, just provides me with a way to setup a RESTful MVC app in a Spring context and that's it..? </p>
  
  <p>Thank's for helpful links or even better some good books!</p>