For this book, you need to have JDK 1.8 installed on your favorite operating system, Linux, Windows, or OS X. It is assumed that readers have reasonable familiarity with Java, including the latest features added by JDK 1.8, as well as basic knowledge of Spring Framework and its operating concepts, such as dependency injection, inversion of control, and MVC.

The rest of the software, such as the Gradle build tool, all the necessary Java libraries, such as Spring Boot, Spring Framework, and its dependencies, as well as Docker, Consul, Graphite, Grafana, and Dashing will be all installed throughout the recipes.

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2. Select the SUPPORT tab.
3. Click on Code Downloads & Errata.
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• Zipeg/iZip/UnRarX for Mac
• 7-Zip/PeaZip for Linux

The code bundle for the book is also hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Spring-Boot-2.0-Cookbook-Second-Edition. In case there's an update to the code, it will be updated on the existing GitHub repository.

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There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Now we will add a @Bean declaration for LocaleChangeInterceptor."

A block of code is set as follows:

@Override 
public void addInterceptors(InterceptorRegistry registry) { 
  registry.addInterceptor(localeChangeInterceptor()); 
} 

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

[default]
exten => s,1,Dial(Zap/1|30)
exten => s,2,Voicemail(u100)
exten => s,102,Voicemail(b100)
exten => i,1,Voicemail(s0)

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ ./gradlew clean bootRun

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Select the Actuator option under Search for dependencies."