# 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/3.4.10/gradle-plugin)
* [Create an OCI image](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/3.4.10/gradle-plugin/packaging-oci-image.html)
* [Spring Web](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/3.4.10/reference/web/servlet.html)
* [Spring Session for Spring Data Redis](https://docs.spring.io/spring-session/reference/)
* [Validation](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/3.4.10/reference/io/validation.html)
* [Spring Security](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/3.4.10/reference/web/spring-security.html)
* [Spring Boot Actuator](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/3.4.10/reference/actuator/index.html)
* [Config Server](https://docs.spring.io/spring-cloud-config/reference/server.html)

### 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/)
* [Validation](https://spring.io/guides/gs/validating-form-input/)
* [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 with Spring Boot Actuator](https://spring.io/guides/gs/actuator-service/)
* [Centralized Configuration](https://spring.io/guides/gs/centralized-configuration/)

### Additional Links
These additional references should also help you:

* [Gradle Build Scans – insights for your project's build](https://scans.gradle.com#gradle)

