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The reference documentation consists of the following sections:
| Legal |
Legal information. |
| Getting Help |
Resources for getting help. |
| Documentation Overview |
About the Documentation, First Steps, and more. |
| Getting Started |
Introducing Spring Boot, System Requirements, Servlet Containers, Installing Spring Boot, and Developing Your First Spring Boot Application |
| Upgrading Spring Boot Applications |
Upgrading from 1.x, Upgrading to a new feature release, and Upgrading the Spring Boot CLI. |
| Using Spring Boot |
Build Systems, Structuring Your Code, Configuration, Spring Beans and Dependency Injection, DevTools, and more. |
| Core Features |
Profiles, Logging, Security, Caching, Spring Integration, Testing, and more. |
| Web |
Servlet Web, Reactive Web, Embedded Container Support, Graceful Shutdown, and more. |
| Data |
SQL and NOSQL data access. |
| IO |
Caching, Quartz Scheduler, REST clients, Sending email, Spring Web Services, and more. |
| Messaging |
JMS, AMQP, Apache Kafka, RSocket, WebSocket, and Spring Integration. |
| Container Images |
Efficient container images and Building container images with Dockerfiles and Cloud Native Buildpacks. |
| Production-ready Features |
Monitoring, Metrics, Auditing, and more. |
| Deploying Spring Boot Applications |
Deploying to the Cloud, and 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 you can use to configure your application. |
| Configuration Metadata |
Metadata that you can use to describe configuration properties. |
| Auto-configuration Classes |
Auto-configuration classes provided by Spring Boot. |
| Test Auto-configuration Annotations |
Test auto-configuration annotations that you can use 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. |