Documentation Overview

1. First Steps

If you are getting started with Spring Boot or 'Spring' in general, start with the following topics:spring-doc.cn

You should always ensure that you are running a supported version of Spring Boot.spring-doc.cn

Depending on the version that you are upgrading to, you can find some additional tips here:spring-doc.cn

Ready to actually start using Spring Boot? We have you covered:spring-doc.cn

Build systems: Maven | Gradle | Ant | Starters spring-doc.cn
Best practices: Code Structure | @Configuration | @EnableAutoConfiguration | Beans and Dependency Injection spring-doc.cn
Running your code: IDE | Packaged | Maven | Gradle spring-doc.cn
Packaging your app: Production jars spring-doc.cn
Spring Boot CLI: Using the CLI spring-doc.cn

Need more details about Spring Boot’s core features? The following content is for you:spring-doc.cn

If you develop Spring Boot web applications, take a look at the following content:spring-doc.cn

Servlet Web Applications: Spring MVC, Jersey, Embedded Servlet Containers spring-doc.cn
Reactive Web Applications: Spring Webflux, Embedded Servlet Containers spring-doc.cn
Graceful Shutdown: Graceful Shutdown spring-doc.cn
Spring Security: Default Security Configuration, Auto-configuration for OAuth2, SAML spring-doc.cn
Spring Session: Auto-configuration for Spring Session spring-doc.cn
Spring HATEOAS: Auto-configuration for Spring HATEOAS spring-doc.cn

If your application deals with a datastore, you can see how to configure that here:spring-doc.cn

If your application uses any messaging protocol, see one or more of the following sections:spring-doc.cn

JMS: Auto-configuration for ActiveMQ and Artemis, Sending and Receiving messages through JMS spring-doc.cn
AMQP: Auto-configuration for RabbitMQ spring-doc.cn
Kafka: Auto-configuration for Spring Kafka spring-doc.cn
RSocket: Auto-configuration for Spring Framework’s RSocket Support spring-doc.cn
Spring Integration: Auto-configuration for Spring Integration spring-doc.cn

If your application needs IO capabilities, see one or more of the following sections:spring-doc.cn

Caching: Caching support with EhCache, Hazelcast, Infinispan, and more spring-doc.cn
Quartz: Quartz Scheduling spring-doc.cn
Mail: Sending Email spring-doc.cn
Validation: JSR-303 Validation spring-doc.cn
REST Clients: Calling REST Services with RestTemplate and WebClient spring-doc.cn
Webservices: Auto-configuration for Spring Web Services spring-doc.cn
JTA: Distributed Transactions with JTA spring-doc.cn

Spring Boot provides first-class support for building efficient container images. You can read more about it here:spring-doc.cn

Efficient Container Images: Tips to optimize container images such as Docker images spring-doc.cn
Dockerfiles: Building container images using dockerfiles spring-doc.cn
Cloud Native Buildpacks: Support for Cloud Native Buildpacks with Maven and Gradle spring-doc.cn

When you are ready to push your Spring Boot application to production, we have some tricks that you might like:spring-doc.cn

Spring Boot applications can be converted into native executables using GraalVM. You can read more about our native image support here:spring-doc.cn

GraalVM Native Images: Introduction | Key Differences with the JVM | Ahead-of-Time Processing spring-doc.cn
Getting Started: Buildpacks | Native Build Tools spring-doc.cn
Testing: JVM | Native Build Tools spring-doc.cn
Advanced Topics: Nested Configuration Properties | Converting JARs | Known Limitations spring-doc.cn

Finally, we have a few topics for more advanced users:spring-doc.cn

Spring Boot Applications Deployment: Cloud Deployment | OS Service spring-doc.cn
Build tool plugins: Maven | Gradle spring-doc.cn
Appendix: Application Properties | Configuration Metadata | Auto-configuration Classes | Test Auto-configuration Annotations | Executable Jars | Dependency Versions spring-doc.cn