diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index e89238a..ee4042c 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -29,11 +29,11 @@ This service pulls in all the dependencies you need for an application and does
 . Choose either Gradle or Maven and the language you want to use. This guide assumes that you chose Java.
 . Click *Dependencies* and select *JDBC API* and *H2 Database*.
 . Click *Generate*.
-. Download the resulting ZIP file, which is an archive of a web application that is configured with your choices.
+. Download the resulting ZIP file, which is an archive of a JDBC application that is configured with your choices.
 
 NOTE: If your IDE has the Spring Initializr integration, you can complete this process from your IDE.
 
-NOTE: You can also fork the project from Github and open it in your IDE or other editor.
+NOTE: You can also fork the project from GitHub and open it in your IDE or other editor.
 
 [[initial]]
 == Create a `Customer` Object
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ execute the `run()` method after the application context is loaded.
 First, install some DDL by using the `execute` method of `JdbcTemplate`.
 
 Second, take a list of strings and, by using Java 8 streams, split them into
-firstname/lastname pairs in a Java array.
+first name/last name pairs in a Java array.
 
 Then install some records in your newly created table by using the `batchUpdate` method of
 `JdbcTemplate`. The first argument to the method call is the query string. The last
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ bind variables.
 
 Finally, use the `query` method to search your table for records that match the criteria.
 You again use the `?` arguments to create parameters for the query, passing in the actual
-values when you make the call. The last argument is a Java 8 lambda that is used to
+values when you make the call. The second argument is a Java 8 lambda that is used to
 convert each result row into a new `Customer` object.
 
 NOTE: Java 8 lambdas map nicely onto single method interfaces, such as Spring's
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ Congratulations! You have just used Spring to develop a simple JDBC client.
 
 NOTE: Spring Boot has many features for configuring and customizing the connection pool --
 for instance, to connect to an external database instead of an in-memory one. See the
-http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.2.1.RELEASE/reference/htmlsingle/#boot-features-configure-datasource[Reference Guide]
+https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#data.sql.datasource[Reference Guide]
 for more detail.
 
 == See Also
diff --git a/complete/build.gradle b/complete/build.gradle
index 76231a4..3484d1f 100644
--- a/complete/build.gradle
+++ b/complete/build.gradle
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 plugins {
-	id 'org.springframework.boot' version '3.1.0'
-	id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.1.0'
+	id 'org.springframework.boot' version '3.1.1'
 	id 'java'
 }
 
+apply plugin: 'io.spring.dependency-management'
+
 group = 'com.example'
 version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
 sourceCompatibility = '17'
diff --git a/complete/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/complete/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 41d9927..033e24c 100644
Binary files a/complete/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and b/complete/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar differ
diff --git a/complete/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/complete/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index aa991fc..62f495d 100644
--- a/complete/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/complete/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.4.2-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.2-bin.zip
+networkTimeout=10000
+validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/complete/gradlew b/complete/gradlew
index 1b6c787..fcb6fca 100755
--- a/complete/gradlew
+++ b/complete/gradlew
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 #       Darwin, MinGW, and NonStop.
 #
 #   (3) This script is generated from the Groovy template
-#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
+#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/HEAD/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
 #       within the Gradle project.
 #
 #       You can find Gradle at https://github.com/gradle/gradle/.
@@ -80,13 +80,10 @@ do
     esac
 done
 
-APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
-
-APP_NAME="Gradle"
+# This is normally unused
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034
 APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
-
-# Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
-DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
+APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
 
 # Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
 MAX_FD=maximum
@@ -133,22 +130,29 @@ location of your Java installation."
     fi
 else
     JAVACMD=java
-    which java >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
+    if ! command -v java >/dev/null 2>&1
+    then
+        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
 
 Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
 location of your Java installation."
+    fi
 fi
 
 # Increase the maximum file descriptors if we can.
 if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
     case $MAX_FD in #(
       max*)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -H is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
         MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
             warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
     esac
     case $MAX_FD in  #(
       '' | soft) :;; #(
       *)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -n is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
         ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
             warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
     esac
@@ -193,6 +197,10 @@ if "$cygwin" || "$msys" ; then
     done
 fi
 
+
+# Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
+DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
+
 # Collect all arguments for the java command;
 #   * $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, $JAVA_OPTS, and $GRADLE_OPTS can contain fragments of
 #     shell script including quotes and variable substitutions, so put them in
@@ -205,6 +213,12 @@ set -- \
         org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain \
         "$@"
 
+# Stop when "xargs" is not available.
+if ! command -v xargs >/dev/null 2>&1
+then
+    die "xargs is not available"
+fi
+
 # Use "xargs" to parse quoted args.
 #
 # With -n1 it outputs one arg per line, with the quotes and backslashes removed.
diff --git a/complete/gradlew.bat b/complete/gradlew.bat
index ac1b06f..6689b85 100644
--- a/complete/gradlew.bat
+++ b/complete/gradlew.bat
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 @rem limitations under the License.
 @rem
 
-@if "%DEBUG%" == "" @echo off
+@if "%DEBUG%"=="" @echo off
 @rem ##########################################################################
 @rem
 @rem  Gradle startup script for Windows
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@
 if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" setlocal
 
 set DIRNAME=%~dp0
-if "%DIRNAME%" == "" set DIRNAME=.
+if "%DIRNAME%"=="" set DIRNAME=.
+@rem This is normally unused
 set APP_BASE_NAME=%~n0
 set APP_HOME=%DIRNAME%
 
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ if defined JAVA_HOME goto findJavaFromJavaHome
 
 set JAVA_EXE=java.exe
 %JAVA_EXE% -version >NUL 2>&1
-if "%ERRORLEVEL%" == "0" goto execute
+if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto execute
 
 echo.
 echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
@@ -75,13 +76,15 @@ set CLASSPATH=%APP_HOME%\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar
 
 :end
 @rem End local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
-if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" goto mainEnd
+if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto mainEnd
 
 :fail
 rem Set variable GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE if you need the _script_ return code instead of
 rem the _cmd.exe /c_ return code!
-if  not "" == "%GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE%" exit 1
-exit /b 1
+set EXIT_CODE=%ERRORLEVEL%
+if %EXIT_CODE% equ 0 set EXIT_CODE=1
+if not ""=="%GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE%" exit %EXIT_CODE%
+exit /b %EXIT_CODE%
 
 :mainEnd
 if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" endlocal
diff --git a/complete/src/main/java/com/example/relationaldataaccess/Customer.java b/complete/src/main/java/com/example/relationaldataaccess/Customer.java
index 6c722a3..25a6dd0 100644
--- a/complete/src/main/java/com/example/relationaldataaccess/Customer.java
+++ b/complete/src/main/java/com/example/relationaldataaccess/Customer.java
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 
 public class Customer {
 	private long id;
-	private String firstName, lastName;
+	private String firstName;
+	private String lastName;
 
 	public Customer(long id, String firstName, String lastName) {
 		this.id = id;
diff --git a/complete/src/main/java/com/example/relationaldataaccess/RelationalDataAccessApplication.java b/complete/src/main/java/com/example/relationaldataaccess/RelationalDataAccessApplication.java
index 503a348..5b196b7 100644
--- a/complete/src/main/java/com/example/relationaldataaccess/RelationalDataAccessApplication.java
+++ b/complete/src/main/java/com/example/relationaldataaccess/RelationalDataAccessApplication.java
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ public static void main(String args[]) {
 
 	@Override
 	public void run(String... strings) throws Exception {
-
 		log.info("Creating tables");
 
 		jdbcTemplate.execute("DROP TABLE customers IF EXISTS");
@@ -39,15 +38,16 @@ public void run(String... strings) throws Exception {
 				.collect(Collectors.toList());
 
 		// Use a Java 8 stream to print out each tuple of the list
-		splitUpNames.forEach(name -> log.info(String.format("Inserting customer record for %s %s", name[0], name[1])));
+		splitUpNames.forEach(name -> log.info("Inserting customer record for {} {}", name[0], name[1]));
 
-		// Uses JdbcTemplate's batchUpdate operation to bulk load data
+		// Use JdbcTemplate's batchUpdate operation to bulk load data
 		jdbcTemplate.batchUpdate("INSERT INTO customers(first_name, last_name) VALUES (?,?)", splitUpNames);
 
 		log.info("Querying for customer records where first_name = 'Josh':");
 		jdbcTemplate.query(
-				"SELECT id, first_name, last_name FROM customers WHERE first_name = ?", new Object[] { "Josh" },
-				(rs, rowNum) -> new Customer(rs.getLong("id"), rs.getString("first_name"), rs.getString("last_name"))
+				"SELECT id, first_name, last_name FROM customers WHERE first_name = ?",
+				(rs, rowNum) -> new Customer(rs.getLong("id"), rs.getString("first_name"), rs.getString("last_name")),
+				"Josh"
 		).forEach(customer -> log.info(customer.toString()));
 	}
 }
diff --git a/initial/build.gradle b/initial/build.gradle
index 76231a4..3484d1f 100644
--- a/initial/build.gradle
+++ b/initial/build.gradle
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 plugins {
-	id 'org.springframework.boot' version '3.1.0'
-	id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.1.0'
+	id 'org.springframework.boot' version '3.1.1'
 	id 'java'
 }
 
+apply plugin: 'io.spring.dependency-management'
+
 group = 'com.example'
 version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
 sourceCompatibility = '17'
diff --git a/initial/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/initial/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 41d9927..033e24c 100644
Binary files a/initial/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and b/initial/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar differ
diff --git a/initial/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/initial/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index aa991fc..62f495d 100644
--- a/initial/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/initial/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.4.2-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.2-bin.zip
+networkTimeout=10000
+validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/initial/gradlew b/initial/gradlew
index 1b6c787..fcb6fca 100755
--- a/initial/gradlew
+++ b/initial/gradlew
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 #       Darwin, MinGW, and NonStop.
 #
 #   (3) This script is generated from the Groovy template
-#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
+#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/HEAD/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
 #       within the Gradle project.
 #
 #       You can find Gradle at https://github.com/gradle/gradle/.
@@ -80,13 +80,10 @@ do
     esac
 done
 
-APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
-
-APP_NAME="Gradle"
+# This is normally unused
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034
 APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
-
-# Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
-DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
+APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
 
 # Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
 MAX_FD=maximum
@@ -133,22 +130,29 @@ location of your Java installation."
     fi
 else
     JAVACMD=java
-    which java >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
+    if ! command -v java >/dev/null 2>&1
+    then
+        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
 
 Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
 location of your Java installation."
+    fi
 fi
 
 # Increase the maximum file descriptors if we can.
 if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
     case $MAX_FD in #(
       max*)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -H is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
         MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
             warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
     esac
     case $MAX_FD in  #(
       '' | soft) :;; #(
       *)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -n is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
         ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
             warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
     esac
@@ -193,6 +197,10 @@ if "$cygwin" || "$msys" ; then
     done
 fi
 
+
+# Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
+DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
+
 # Collect all arguments for the java command;
 #   * $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, $JAVA_OPTS, and $GRADLE_OPTS can contain fragments of
 #     shell script including quotes and variable substitutions, so put them in
@@ -205,6 +213,12 @@ set -- \
         org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain \
         "$@"
 
+# Stop when "xargs" is not available.
+if ! command -v xargs >/dev/null 2>&1
+then
+    die "xargs is not available"
+fi
+
 # Use "xargs" to parse quoted args.
 #
 # With -n1 it outputs one arg per line, with the quotes and backslashes removed.
diff --git a/initial/gradlew.bat b/initial/gradlew.bat
index ac1b06f..6689b85 100644
--- a/initial/gradlew.bat
+++ b/initial/gradlew.bat
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 @rem limitations under the License.
 @rem
 
-@if "%DEBUG%" == "" @echo off
+@if "%DEBUG%"=="" @echo off
 @rem ##########################################################################
 @rem
 @rem  Gradle startup script for Windows
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@
 if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" setlocal
 
 set DIRNAME=%~dp0
-if "%DIRNAME%" == "" set DIRNAME=.
+if "%DIRNAME%"=="" set DIRNAME=.
+@rem This is normally unused
 set APP_BASE_NAME=%~n0
 set APP_HOME=%DIRNAME%
 
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ if defined JAVA_HOME goto findJavaFromJavaHome
 
 set JAVA_EXE=java.exe
 %JAVA_EXE% -version >NUL 2>&1
-if "%ERRORLEVEL%" == "0" goto execute
+if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto execute
 
 echo.
 echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
@@ -75,13 +76,15 @@ set CLASSPATH=%APP_HOME%\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar
 
 :end
 @rem End local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
-if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" goto mainEnd
+if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto mainEnd
 
 :fail
 rem Set variable GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE if you need the _script_ return code instead of
 rem the _cmd.exe /c_ return code!
-if  not "" == "%GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE%" exit 1
-exit /b 1
+set EXIT_CODE=%ERRORLEVEL%
+if %EXIT_CODE% equ 0 set EXIT_CODE=1
+if not ""=="%GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE%" exit %EXIT_CODE%
+exit /b %EXIT_CODE%
 
 :mainEnd
 if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" endlocal