# Getting Started

### Reference Documentation

For further reference, please consider the following sections:

* [Official Gradle documentation](https://docs.gradle.org)

* [Spring Boot Gradle Plugin Reference
Guide](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/3.2.4/gradle-plugin/reference/html/)
* [Create an OCI image](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/3.2.4/gradle-
plugin/reference/html/#build-image)
* [Spring Boot Actuator](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/3.2.4/reference/
htmlsingle/index.html#actuator)
* [Spring Data
JPA](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/3.2.4/reference/htmlsingle/
index.html#data.sql.jpa-and-spring-data)
* [Rest Repositories](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/3.2.4/reference/
htmlsingle/index.html#howto.data-access.exposing-spring-data-repositories-as-rest)
* [Spring Security](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/3.2.4/reference/
htmlsingle/index.html#web.security)
* [Spring Web](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/3.2.4/reference/htmlsingle/
index.html#web)
* [Config Client Quick
Start](https://docs.spring.io/spring-cloud-config/docs/current/reference/html/
#_client_side_usage)

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

* [Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot

Actuator](https://spring.io/guides/gs/actuator-service/)
* [Accessing Data with JPA](https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-data-jpa/)
* [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/)
* [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/)

### Additional Links

These additional references should also help you:

* [Gradle Build Scans – insights for your project's

build](https://scans.gradle.com#gradle)