I do not really have much experiences with Spring.
Nevertheless the following link is quite helpful as well. It seems to be a little bit more complete as the one posted originally.
http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2011/04/spring-mvc3-hibernate-crud-sample.html
The following tutorial was followed: http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/04/spring-mvc-hibernate-maven-crud-ope...