create spring boot project. closes springframeworkguru#1.

.gitignore

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-# Compiled class file
-*.class
+######################
+# Project Specific
+######################
+/build/www/**
+/src/test/javascript/coverage/
+/src/test/javascript/PhantomJS*/
 
-# Log file
-*.log
+######################
+# Node
+######################
+/node/
+node_tmp/
+node_modules/
+npm-debug.log.*
+
+######################
+# SASS
+######################
+.sass-cache/
+
+######################
+# Eclipse
+######################
+*.pydevproject
+.project
+.metadata
+tmp/
+tmp/**/*
+*.tmp
+*.bak
+*.swp
+*~.nib
+local.properties
+.classpath
+.settings/
+.loadpath
+.factorypath
+/src/main/resources/rebel.xml
+
+# External tool builders
+.externalToolBuilders/**
+
+# Locally stored "Eclipse launch configurations"
+*.launch
 
-# BlueJ files
-*.ctxt
+# CDT-specific
+.cproject
 
-# Mobile Tools for Java (J2ME)
-.mtj.tmp/
+# PDT-specific
+.buildpath
 
-# Package Files #
+######################
+# Intellij
+######################
+.idea/
+*.iml
+*.iws
+*.ipr
+*.ids
+*.orig
+
+######################
+# Visual Studio Code
+######################
+.vscode/
+
+######################
+# Maven
+######################
+/log/
+/target/
+
+######################
+# Gradle
+######################
+.gradle/
+/build/
+
+######################
+# Package Files
+######################
 *.jar
 *.war
-*.nar
 *.ear
-*.zip
-*.tar.gz
-*.rar
+*.db
+
+######################
+# Windows
+######################
+# Windows image file caches
+Thumbs.db
+
+# Folder config file
+Desktop.ini
+
+######################
+# Mac OSX
+######################
+.DS_Store
+.svn
+
+# Thumbnails
+._*
+
+# Files that might appear on external disk
+.Spotlight-V100
+.Trashes
+
+######################
+# Directories
+######################
+/bin/
+/deploy/
+
+######################
+# Logs
+######################
+*.log
+
+######################
+# Others
+######################
+*.class
+*.*~
+*~
+.merge_file*
+
+######################
+# Gradle Wrapper
+######################
+!gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
+
+######################
+# Maven Wrapper
+######################
+!.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.jar
 
-# virtual machine crash logs, see http://www.java.com/en/download/help/error_hotspot.xml
-hs_err_pid*
+######################
+# ESLint
+######################
+.eslintcache

.mvn/wrapper/MavenWrapperDownloader.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2007-present the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import java.net.*;
+import java.io.*;
+import java.nio.channels.*;
+import java.util.Properties;
+
+public class MavenWrapperDownloader {
+
+    private static final String WRAPPER_VERSION = "0.5.6";
+    /**
+     * Default URL to download the maven-wrapper.jar from, if no 'downloadUrl' is provided.
+     */
+    private static final String DEFAULT_DOWNLOAD_URL = "https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/io/takari/maven-wrapper/"
+            + WRAPPER_VERSION + "/maven-wrapper-" + WRAPPER_VERSION + ".jar";
+
+    /**
+     * Path to the maven-wrapper.properties file, which might contain a downloadUrl property to
+     * use instead of the default one.
+     */
+    private static final String MAVEN_WRAPPER_PROPERTIES_PATH =
+            ".mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties";
+
+    /**
+     * Path where the maven-wrapper.jar will be saved to.
+     */
+    private static final String MAVEN_WRAPPER_JAR_PATH =
+            ".mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.jar";
+
+    /**
+     * Name of the property which should be used to override the default download url for the wrapper.
+     */
+    private static final String PROPERTY_NAME_WRAPPER_URL = "wrapperUrl";
+
+    public static void main(String args[]) {
+        System.out.println("- Downloader started");
+        File baseDirectory = new File(args[0]);
+        System.out.println("- Using base directory: " + baseDirectory.getAbsolutePath());
+
+        // If the maven-wrapper.properties exists, read it and check if it contains a custom
+        // wrapperUrl parameter.
+        File mavenWrapperPropertyFile = new File(baseDirectory, MAVEN_WRAPPER_PROPERTIES_PATH);
+        String url = DEFAULT_DOWNLOAD_URL;
+        if (mavenWrapperPropertyFile.exists()) {
+            FileInputStream mavenWrapperPropertyFileInputStream = null;
+            try {
+                mavenWrapperPropertyFileInputStream = new FileInputStream(mavenWrapperPropertyFile);
+                Properties mavenWrapperProperties = new Properties();
+                mavenWrapperProperties.load(mavenWrapperPropertyFileInputStream);
+                url = mavenWrapperProperties.getProperty(PROPERTY_NAME_WRAPPER_URL, url);
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                System.out.println("- ERROR loading '" + MAVEN_WRAPPER_PROPERTIES_PATH + "'");
+            } finally {
+                try {
+                    if (mavenWrapperPropertyFileInputStream != null) {
+                        mavenWrapperPropertyFileInputStream.close();
+                    }
+                } catch (IOException e) {
+                    // Ignore ...
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        System.out.println("- Downloading from: " + url);
+
+        File outputFile = new File(baseDirectory.getAbsolutePath(), MAVEN_WRAPPER_JAR_PATH);
+        if (!outputFile.getParentFile().exists()) {
+            if (!outputFile.getParentFile().mkdirs()) {
+                System.out.println(
+                        "- ERROR creating output directory '" + outputFile.getParentFile().getAbsolutePath() + "'");
+            }
+        }
+        System.out.println("- Downloading to: " + outputFile.getAbsolutePath());
+        try {
+            downloadFileFromURL(url, outputFile);
+            System.out.println("Done");
+            System.exit(0);
+        } catch (Throwable e) {
+            System.out.println("- Error downloading");
+            e.printStackTrace();
+            System.exit(1);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static void downloadFileFromURL(String urlString, File destination) throws Exception {
+        if (System.getenv("MVNW_USERNAME") != null && System.getenv("MVNW_PASSWORD") != null) {
+            String username = System.getenv("MVNW_USERNAME");
+            char[] password = System.getenv("MVNW_PASSWORD").toCharArray();
+            Authenticator.setDefault(new Authenticator() {
+                @Override
+                protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
+                    return new PasswordAuthentication(username, password);
+                }
+            });
+        }
+        URL website = new URL(urlString);
+        ReadableByteChannel rbc;
+        rbc = Channels.newChannel(website.openStream());
+        FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(destination);
+        fos.getChannel().transferFrom(rbc, 0, Long.MAX_VALUE);
+        fos.close();
+        rbc.close();
+    }
+
+}

.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties

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+distributionUrl=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/3.8.1/apache-maven-3.8.1-bin.zip
+wrapperUrl=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/io/takari/maven-wrapper/0.5.6/maven-wrapper-0.5.6.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/2.5.0/maven-plugin/reference/html/)
+* [Create an OCI image](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.5.0/maven-plugin/reference/html/#build-image)
+* [Thymeleaf](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.5.0/reference/htmlsingle/#boot-features-spring-mvc-template-engines)
+* [Spring Web](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.5.0/reference/htmlsingle/#boot-features-developing-web-applications)
+
+### 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/bookmarks/)
+