Welcome to the reference documentation of Coherence Spring, a collection of several libraries that will help you to integrate Coherence with the wider Spring ecosystem.

This section provides a brief overview of the Coherence Spring reference documentation.

1. About the Documentation

The Coherence Spring reference guide is available as:

2. Getting Help

If you run into issues with Spring Coherence, we are here to help.

  • Try the Quickstart. The Quickstart will give you an overview of Coherence Spring’s capabilities and provides a sample application to get you started.

  • Learn the Coherence basics. Please have at least some basic understanding of Oracle Coherence since all Spring Coherence modules depend on it. Check out the Coherence CE web-site for general Coherence targeted reference documentation.

  • Learn the Spring basics. The reference guide assumes that you have a basic understanding of Spring Framework and Spring Boot. Coherence Spring utilizes several other Spring projects. Check the spring.io web-site for general reference documentation. If you are starting out with Spring, try one of the guides.

  • Ask a question. Chat with us directly on Slack. We also monitor stackoverflow.com for questions tagged with oracle-coherence.

  • Report bugs with Spring Coherence via GitHub Issues.

All of Coherence Spring is open source, including the documentation. If you find problems with the docs or if you want to improve them, please get involved.

3. What is new?

In order to see what changes were made from earlier versions of Coherence Spring, see the Change History as well as the GitHub Releases page.

4. First Steps

If you are getting started with Spring Boot or 'Spring' in general, start with the following topics: