image:https://spring.io/badges/spring-hateoas/ga.svg[http://projects.spring.io/spring-hateoas/#quick-start] image:https://spring.io/badges/spring-hateoas/snapshot.svg[http://projects.spring.io/spring-hateoas/#quick-start] = Spring HATEOAS This project provides some APIs to ease creating REST representations that follow the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS[HATEOAS] principle when working with Spring and especially Spring MVC. The core problem it tries to address is link creation and representation assembly. == Working with Spring HATEOAS Since all commits are headlined with its github issue, git will treat it as a comment. To get around this, apply the following configuration to your clone: [source] ---- git config core.commentchar "/" ---- == Resources * Reference documentation - http://docs.spring.io/spring-hateoas/docs/current/reference/html/[html], http://docs.spring.io/spring-hateoas/docs/current/reference/pdf/spring-hateoas-reference.pdf[pdf] * http://docs.spring.io/spring-hateoas/docs/current-SNAPSHOT/api/[JavaDoc] * https://spring.io/guides/gs/rest-hateoas/[Getting started guide]