Is Spring Framework difficult to learn?

To answer your questions, Spring is easy to learn because the whole framework is designed to work with POJOs, instead of relying on special interfaces, abstract classes or such.

Can I learn Spring boot without Spring?

Spring Boot is built on Spring. You can’t use Spring Boot without Spring at all. However, you can choose your path of learning. It is indeed possible, and I also recommend that you start with Spring Boot and then gradually learn the essentials of Spring.

Do I need to learn servlets and JSPS for Spring MVC?

Short answer: no, you don’t need to learn Servlets and JSPs as a pre-requisite for Spring MVC and many other Java web frameworks. Let’s get Hibernate out of the picture first. It’s a persistence layer framework and it doesn’t have anything to do with Servlets and JSPs.

What is the difference between hibernate and Servlet and springspring?

Spring framework has mvc pattern implementation and it uses servlets in implementation. Hibernate framework is uses for SQL operation. Knowledge of servlets and jsp will be handy while learning hibernate and spring. No need. Servlet is different from spring and hibernate. Also jsp is almost same as html.

Do I need to learn Java EE to learn spring?

Features such as concurrency frameworks, serverlets, websockets and a whole lot more. So in other words, no you don’t need to get into all of Java EE to know Spring. It will be always helpful if you learn some of basics about JEE. I think you should atleast have basic idea around servlets and jsp if you are planning to utilize spring MVC.

What is the best way to start learning Spring MVC?

If you are interested in learning Spring MVC (which it sounds like you might be based on the technologies you mention), I would recommend learning the basics in these (again from your question): Servlets JSP Tomcat (or another web application container)