# Read Me First
The following was discovered as part of building this project:

* The JVM level was changed from '1.8' to '17', review the [JDK Version Range](https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/wiki/Spring-Framework-Versions#jdk-version-range) on the wiki for more details.

# 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/3.0.3-SNAPSHOT/maven-plugin/reference/html/)
* [Create an OCI image](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/3.0.3-SNAPSHOT/maven-plugin/reference/html/#build-image)
* [Spring Reactive Web](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/3.0.3-SNAPSHOT/reference/htmlsingle/#web.reactive)
* [Spring for Apache Kafka](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/3.0.3-SNAPSHOT/reference/htmlsingle/#messaging.kafka)

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

* [Building a Reactive RESTful Web Service](https://spring.io/guides/gs/reactive-rest-service/)

