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 ## Understanding the Spring Petclinic application with a few diagrams
 <a href="https://speakerdeck.com/michaelisvy/spring-petclinic-sample-application">See the presentation here</a>
 
-## Running petclinic locally
+## Running petclinic locally.
 Petclinic is a [Spring Boot](https://spring.io/guides/gs/spring-boot) application built using [Maven](https://spring.io/guides/gs/maven/). You can build a jar file and run it from the command line (it should work just as well with Java 8, 11 or 17):