# Getting Started

### Reference Documentation
For further reference, please consider the following sections:

* [Official Apache Maven documentation](https://maven.apache.org/guides/index.html)
* [Spring Boot Maven Plugin Reference Guide](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.7.9/maven-plugin/reference/html/)
* [Create an OCI image](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.7.9/maven-plugin/reference/html/#build-image)
* [Spring Configuration Processor](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.7.9/reference/htmlsingle/#appendix.configuration-metadata.annotation-processor)
* [Spring Web](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.7.9/reference/htmlsingle/#web)
* [Thymeleaf](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.7.9/reference/htmlsingle/#web.servlet.spring-mvc.template-engines)
* [JDBC API](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.7.9/reference/htmlsingle/#data.sql)
* [Spring Data JPA](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.7.9/reference/htmlsingle/#data.sql.jpa-and-spring-data)

### Guides
The following guides illustrate how to use some features concretely:

* [Building a RESTful Web Service](https://spring.io/guides/gs/rest-service/)
* [Serving Web Content with Spring MVC](https://spring.io/guides/gs/serving-web-content/)
* [Building REST services with Spring](https://spring.io/guides/tutorials/rest/)
* [Handling Form Submission](https://spring.io/guides/gs/handling-form-submission/)
* [Accessing Relational Data using JDBC with Spring](https://spring.io/guides/gs/relational-data-access/)
* [Managing Transactions](https://spring.io/guides/gs/managing-transactions/)
* [Accessing Data with JPA](https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-data-jpa/)

