# 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/2.7.2/maven-plugin/reference/html/)
* [Create an OCI image](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.7.2/maven-plugin/reference/html/#build-image)
* [Rest Repositories](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.7.2/reference/htmlsingle/#howto.data-access.exposing-spring-data-repositories-as-rest)
* [Spring Security](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.7.2/reference/htmlsingle/#web.security)
* [Spring Data JPA](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.7.2/reference/htmlsingle/#data.sql.jpa-and-spring-data)
* [Spring Web](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.7.2/reference/htmlsingle/#web)

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

* [Accessing JPA Data with REST](https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-data-rest/)
* [Accessing Neo4j Data with REST](https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-neo4j-data-rest/)
* [Accessing MongoDB Data with REST](https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-mongodb-data-rest/)
* [Securing a Web Application](https://spring.io/guides/gs/securing-web/)
* [Spring Boot and OAuth2](https://spring.io/guides/tutorials/spring-boot-oauth2/)
* [Authenticating a User with LDAP](https://spring.io/guides/gs/authenticating-ldap/)
* [Accessing Data with JPA](https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-data-jpa/)
* [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/)