Create Spring boot project

.gitignore

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+HELP.md
+target/
+!.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.jar
+!**/src/main/**/target/
+!**/src/test/**/target/
+
+### STS ###
+.apt_generated
+.classpath
+.factorypath
+.project
+.settings
+.springBeans
+.sts4-cache
+
+### IntelliJ IDEA ###
+.idea
+*.iws
+*.iml
+*.ipr
+
+### NetBeans ###
+/nbproject/private/
+/nbbuild/
+/dist/
+/nbdist/
+/.nb-gradle/
+build/
+!**/src/main/**/build/
+!**/src/test/**/build/
+
+### VS Code ###
+.vscode/
+
 # Compiled class file
 *.class
 

.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties

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+distributionUrl=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/3.8.6/apache-maven-3.8.6-bin.zip
+wrapperUrl=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/wrapper/maven-wrapper/3.1.0/maven-wrapper-3.1.0.jar

HELP.md

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+# 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/2.7.4/maven-plugin/reference/html/)
+* [Create an OCI image](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.7.4/maven-plugin/reference/html/#build-image)
+* [Thymeleaf](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.7.4/reference/htmlsingle/#web.servlet.spring-mvc.template-engines)
+* [Spring Web](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.7.4/reference/htmlsingle/#web)
+
+### Guides
+The following guides illustrate how to use some features concretely:
+
+* [Handling Form Submission](https://spring.io/guides/gs/handling-form-submission/)
+* [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/)
+