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+/gradlew text eol=lf
+*.bat text eol=crlf
+*.jar binary
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+HELP.md
+.gradle
+build/
+!gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
+!**/src/main/**/build/
+!**/src/test/**/build/
+
+### STS ###
+.apt_generated
+.classpath
+.factorypath
+.project
+.settings
+.springBeans
+.sts4-cache
+bin/
+!**/src/main/**/bin/
+!**/src/test/**/bin/
+
+### IntelliJ IDEA ###
+.idea
+*.iws
+*.iml
+*.ipr
+out/
+!**/src/main/**/out/
+!**/src/test/**/out/
+
+### NetBeans ###
+/nbproject/private/
+/nbbuild/
+/dist/
+/nbdist/
+/.nb-gradle/
+
+### VS Code ###
+.vscode/
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+# 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/3.4.3/gradle-plugin)
+* [Create an OCI image](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/3.4.3/gradle-plugin/packaging-oci-image.html)
+* [Spring Web](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/3.4.3/reference/web/servlet.html)
+* [MyBatis Framework](https://mybatis.org/spring-boot-starter/mybatis-spring-boot-autoconfigure/)
+* [JDBC API](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/3.4.3/reference/data/sql.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/)
+* [MyBatis Quick Start](https://github.com/mybatis/spring-boot-starter/wiki/Quick-Start)
+* [Accessing Relational Data using JDBC with Spring](https://spring.io/guides/gs/relational-data-access/)
+* [Managing Transactions](https://spring.io/guides/gs/managing-transactions/)
+* [Accessing data with MySQL](https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-data-mysql/)
+
+### Additional Links
+These additional references should also help you:
+
+* [Gradle Build Scans – insights for your project's build](https://scans.gradle.com#gradle)
+
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+distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
+distributionPath=wrapper/dists
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.12.1-bin.zip
+networkTimeout=10000
+validateDistributionUrl=true
+zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
+zipStorePath=wrapper/dists