2.5.1
The reference documentation consists of the following sections:
| Legal |
Legal information. |
| Documentation Overview |
About the Documentation, Getting Help, First Steps, and more. |
| Getting Started |
Introducing Spring Boot, System Requirements, Servlet Containers, Installing Spring Boot, Developing Your First Spring Boot Application |
| Using Spring Boot |
Build Systems, Structuring Your Code, Configuration, Spring Beans and Dependency Injection, DevTools, and more. |
| Spring Boot Features |
Profiles, Logging, Security, Caching, Spring Integration, Testing, and more. |
| Spring Boot Actuator |
Monitoring, Metrics, Auditing, and more. |
| Deploying Spring Boot Applications |
Deploying to the Cloud, Installing as a Unix application. |
| Spring Boot CLI |
Installing the CLI, Using the CLI, Configuring the CLI, and more. |
| Build Tool Plugins |
Maven Plugin, Gradle Plugin, Antlib, and more. |
| “How-to” Guides |
Application Development, Configuration, Embedded Servers, Data Access, and many more. |
The reference documentation has the following appendices:
| Application Properties |
Common application properties that can be used to configure your application. |
| Configuration Metadata |
Metadata used to describe configuration properties. |
| Auto-configuration Classes |
Auto-configuration classes provided by Spring Boot. |
| Test Auto-configuration Annotations |
Test auto-configuration annotations used to test slices of your application. |
| Executable Jars |
Spring Boot’s executable jars, their launchers, and their format. |
| Dependency Versions |
Details of the dependencies that are managed by Spring Boot. |