# 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/2.2.1.RELEASE/maven-plugin/)
* [Spring Web](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.2.1.RELEASE/reference/htmlsingle/#boot-features-developing-web-applications)
* [Spring Boot DevTools](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.2.1.RELEASE/reference/htmlsingle/#using-boot-devtools)

### 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/bookmarks/)
* [Accessing data with MySQL](https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-data-mysql/)