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Spring Boot Documentation

About the documentation

The Spring Boot reference guide is available as {spring-boot-docs}/html[html], {spring-boot-docs}/pdf/spring-boot-reference.pdf[pdf] and {spring-boot-docs}/epub/spring-boot-reference.epub[epub] documents. The latest copy is available at {spring-boot-docs-current}.

Copies of this document may be made for your own use and for distribution to others, provided that you do not charge any fee for such copies and further provided that each copy contains this Copyright Notice, whether distributed in print or electronically.

Getting help

Having trouble with Spring Boot, We’d like to help!

• Try the How-to’s — they provide solutions to the most common questions.

• Learn the Spring basics — Spring Boot builds on many other Spring projects, check the spring.io web-site for a wealth of reference documentation. If you are just starting out with Spring, try one of the guides.

• Ask a question - we monitor stackoverflow.com for questions tagged with spring-boot.

• Report bugs with Spring Boot at https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues.

Note	All of Spring Boot is open source, including the documentation! If you find problems with the docs; or if you just want to improve them, please {github-code}[get involved].

First steps

If you’re just getting started with Spring Boot, or 'Spring' in general, this is the place to start!

• From scratch: Overview | Requirements | Installation

• Tutorial: Part 1 | Part 2

• Running your example: Part 1 | Part 2

Working with Spring Boot

Ready to actually start using Spring Boot? We’ve got you covered.

• Build systems: Maven | Gradle | Ant | Starter POMs

• Best practices: Code Structure | @Configuration | @EnableAutoConfiguration | Beans and Dependency Injection

• Running your code IDE | Packaged | Maven | Gradle

• Packaging your app: Production jars

• Spring Boot CLI: Using the CLI

Learning about Spring Boot features

Need more details about Spring Boot’s core features? This is for you!

• Core Features: SpringApplication | External Configuration | Profiles | Logging

• Web Applications: MVC | Embedded Containers

• Working with data: SQL | NO-SQL

• Messaging: Overview | JMS

• Testing: Overview | Boot Applications | Utils

• Extending: Auto-configuration | @Conditions

Moving to production

When you’re ready to push your Spring Boot application to production, we’ve got some tricks that you might like!

• Management endpoints: Overview | Customization

• Connection options: HTTP | JMX | SSH

• Monitoring: Metrics | Auditing | Tracing | Process

Advanced topics

Lastly, we have a few topics for the more advanced user.

• Deploy Spring Boot Applications: Cloud Deployment | OS Service

• Build tool plugins: Maven | Gradle

• Appendix: Application Properties | Auto-configuration classes | Executable Jars