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 Cloned from [here](https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-petclinic), and adapted for my experiments.
 
+## Building it
 
+    ./mvnw validate compile
+    
+## Running it
+
+    ./mvnw spring-boot:run -Dspring-boot.run.arguments=--server.port=8085