This commit improves the consistency of xref link formatting (no
quotes, italics, or other decoration) and uses automatic link
text generation wherever possible.
Use of the term "starter" was sometimes quoted but sometimes was not,
sometimes used proper case and sometimes lowercase. This commit
improves consistency by removing quotes and using lowercase.
Documentation for native executables, CDS, and checkpoint/restore are
now under a common heading in the reference documentation, along with
sections on building container images. A few sections containing
prescriptive workflows have been moved from reference to how-to guides.
This consolidates and improves the consistency of recommendations on
how to package and run applications.
Closes gh-40977
Prior to this commit, applications could declare Actuator Endpoints
using web framework-specific annotations, such as `@ServletEndpoint`,
@ControllerEndpoint and @RestControllerEndpoint.
Such annotations are closely tied to the programming model of specific
web technologies, such as Servlet or Spring MVC. Unlike other
`@Endpoint` support, they are not portable and will not work
transparently over blocking/reactive and transports.
Because of the strong adherence of this support with the underlying
infrastructure, it makes it impossible to evolve the implementation of
Actuator support without breaking this use case. The reference
documentation has been advocating for using `@Endpoint` and
`@*Operation` for custom endpoints for a long time now.
This commit deprecates this specific support in favor of the recommended
approach.
Closes gh-31768
Add a redirects page primarily generated from the existing anchor
rewrite files. This page should eventually provide redirect support.
Migration was mostly automated using
https://github.com/philwebb/spring-boot-redirects-generator
See gh-40062
Update `anchor-rewrite.properties` to fix a few errors and remove
elements that no longer exist. This commit also fixes a few anchors
in some `.adoc` files.
See gh-40062
