Spring Boot Reference Documentation

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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, Internationalization, Task Execution and Scheduling, 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, Apache Pulsar, 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.
GraalVM Native Image Support	Create a native executable from your application using GraalVM
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.