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

* The original package name 'com.javadevjournal.password-encoding-in-spring-security' is invalid and this project uses 'com.javadevjournal.passwordencodinginspringsecurity' instead.

# 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/2.2.4.RELEASE/maven-plugin/)
* [Spring Web](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.2.4.RELEASE/reference/htmlsingle/#boot-features-developing-web-applications)
* [Spring Security](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.2.4.RELEASE/reference/htmlsingle/#boot-features-security)
* [Spring Data JPA](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.2.4.RELEASE/reference/htmlsingle/#boot-features-jpa-and-spring-data)
* [Thymeleaf](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.2.4.RELEASE/reference/htmlsingle/#boot-features-spring-mvc-template-engines)

### 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/)
* [Securing a Web Application](https://spring.io/guides/gs/securing-web/)
* [Spring Boot and OAuth2](https://spring.io/guides/tutorials/spring-boot-oauth2/)
* [Authenticating a User with LDAP](https://spring.io/guides/gs/authenticating-ldap/)
* [Accessing Data with JPA](https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-data-jpa/)
* [Handling Form Submission](https://spring.io/guides/gs/handling-form-submission/)