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HELP.md

+# 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/2.7.3/maven-plugin/reference/html/)
+* [Create an OCI image](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.7.3/maven-plugin/reference/html/#build-image)
+* [Spring Boot DevTools](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.7.3/reference/htmlsingle/#using.devtools)
+* [Spring HATEOAS](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.7.3/reference/htmlsingle/#web.spring-hateoas)
+* [Spring for Apache Kafka](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.7.3/reference/htmlsingle/#messaging.kafka)
+
+### Guides
+The following guides illustrate how to use some features concretely:
+
+* [Building a Hypermedia-Driven RESTful Web Service](https://spring.io/guides/gs/rest-hateoas/)
+