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+Spring Reactive is a sandbox for experimenting on the reactive support intended to be part
+of Spring Framework 5. For more information about this topic, you can have a look to
+[Intro to Reactive programming][] and [Reactive Web Applications][] talks.
+
+## Downloading Artifacts
+Artifacts are not yet available, so you have to build the project from source for now.
+
+## Building from Source
+Spring Reactive uses a [Gradle][]-based build system. In the instructions
+below, `./gradlew` is invoked from the root of the source tree and serves as
+a cross-platform, self-contained bootstrap mechanism for the build.
+
+You can check the current build status on this [Bamboo Spring Reactive build][].
+
+### Prerequisites
+
+[Git][] and [JDK 8 update 20 or later][JDK8 build]
+
+Be sure that your `JAVA_HOME` environment variable points to the `jdk1.8.0` folder
+extracted from the JDK download.
+
+### Install all spring-\* jars into your local Maven cache
+`./gradlew install`
+
+### Compile and test; build all jars, distribution zips, and docs
+`./gradlew build`
+
+## Contributing
+Feel free to send us your feedback on the [issue tracker][]; [Pull requests][] are welcome.
+
+## License
+The Spring Reactive is released under version 2.0 of the [Apache License][].
+
+
+[Gradle]: http://gradle.org
+[Bamboo Spring Reactive build]: https://build.spring.io/browse/SR-PUB
+[Git]: http://help.github.com/set-up-git-redirect
+[JDK8 build]: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads
+[Intro to Reactive programming]: http://fr.slideshare.net/StphaneMaldini/intro-to-reactive-programming-52821416
+[Reactive Web Applications]: http://fr.slideshare.net/rstoya05/reactive-web-applications
+[issue tracker]: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-reactive/issues
+[Pull requests]: http://help.github.com/send-pull-requests
+[Apache License]: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0