Improve reference documentation

Address a series of minor typos and phrasing inconsistencies
identified in few sections of documentation to enhance overall
clarity and readability.

See gh-38942

spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/howto/batch.adoc

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ For more info about Spring Batch, see the {spring-batch}[Spring Batch project pa
 === Running Spring Batch Jobs on Startup
 Spring Batch auto-configuration is enabled by adding `spring-boot-starter-batch` to your application's classpath.
 
-If a single `Job` is found in the application context, it is executed on startup (see {spring-boot-autoconfigure-module-code}/batch/JobLauncherApplicationRunner.java[`JobLauncherApplicationRunner`] for details).
+If a single `Job` bean is found in the application context, it is executed on startup (see {spring-boot-autoconfigure-module-code}/batch/JobLauncherApplicationRunner.java[`JobLauncherApplicationRunner`] for details).
 If multiple `Job` beans are found, the job that should be executed must be specified using configprop:spring.batch.job.name[].
 
 To disable running a `Job` found in the application context, set the configprop:spring.batch.job.enabled[] to `false`.

spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/howto/data-initialization.adoc

@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ This is controlled through two external properties:
 
 [[howto.data-initialization.using-hibernate]]
 === Initialize a Database Using Hibernate
-You can set `spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto` explicitly and the standard Hibernate property values are `none`, `validate`, `update`, `create`, and `create-drop`.
+You can set `spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto` explicitly, and the standard Hibernate property values are `none`, `validate`, `update`, `create`, and `create-drop`.
 Spring Boot chooses a default value for you based on whether it thinks your database is embedded.
 It defaults to `create-drop` if no schema manager has been detected or `none` in all other cases.
 An embedded database is detected by looking at the `Connection` type and JDBC url.
-`hsqldb`, `h2`, and `derby` are candidates, and others are not.
+`hsqldb`, `h2`, and `derby` are candidates, while others are not.
 Be careful when switching from in-memory to a '`real`' database that you do not make assumptions about the existence of the tables and data in the new platform.
 You either have to set `ddl-auto` explicitly or use one of the other mechanisms to initialize the database.
 
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ It is a Hibernate feature (and has nothing to do with Spring).
 Spring Boot can automatically create the schema (DDL scripts) of your JDBC `DataSource` or R2DBC `ConnectionFactory` and initialize its data (DML scripts).
 
 By default, it loads schema scripts from `optional:classpath*:schema.sql` and data scripts from `optional:classpath*:data.sql`.
-The locations of these schema and data scripts can customized using configprop:spring.sql.init.schema-locations[] and configprop:spring.sql.init.data-locations[] respectively.
-The `optional:` prefix means that the application will start when the files do not exist.
+The locations of these schema and data scripts can be customized using configprop:spring.sql.init.schema-locations[] and configprop:spring.sql.init.data-locations[] respectively.
+The `optional:` prefix means that the application will start even when the files do not exist.
 To have the application fail to start when the files are absent, remove the `optional:` prefix.
 
 In addition, Spring Boot processes the `optional:classpath*:schema-$\{platform}.sql` and `optional:classpath*:data-$\{platform}.sql` files (if present), where `$\{platform}` is the value of configprop:spring.sql.init.platform[].

spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/howto/docker-compose.adoc

@@ -33,6 +33,6 @@ With this Docker Compose file in place, the JDBC URL used is `jdbc:postgresql://
 === Sharing services between multiple applications
 
 If you want to share services between multiple applications, create the `compose.yaml` file in one of the applications and then use the configuration property configprop:spring.docker.compose.file[] in the other applications to reference the `compose.yaml` file.
-You should also set configprop:spring.docker.compose.lifecycle-management[] to `start-only`, as it defaults to `start-and-stop` and stopping one application would shut down the shared services for the other still running applications, too.
-Setting it to `start-only` won't stop the shared services on application stop, but a caveat is that if you shut down all applications, the services stay running.
+You should also set configprop:spring.docker.compose.lifecycle-management[] to `start-only`, as it defaults to `start-and-stop` and stopping one application would shut down the shared services for the other still running applications as well.
+Setting it to `start-only` won't stop the shared services on application stop, but a caveat is that if you shut down all applications, the services remain running.
 You can stop the services manually by running `docker compose stop` on the command line in the directory which contains the `compose.yaml` file.

spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/howto/logging.adoc

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 [[howto.logging]]
 == Logging
 Spring Boot has no mandatory logging dependency, except for the Commons Logging API, which is typically provided by Spring Framework's `spring-jcl` module.
-To use https://logback.qos.ch[Logback], you need to include it and `spring-jcl` on the classpath.
+To use https://logback.qos.ch[Logback], you need to include it and `spring-jcl` in the classpath.
 The recommended way to do that is through the starters, which all depend on `spring-boot-starter-logging`.
-For a web application, you need only `spring-boot-starter-web`, since it depends transitively on the logging starter.
+For a web application, you only need `spring-boot-starter-web`, since it depends transitively on the logging starter.
 If you use Maven, the following dependency adds logging for you:
 
 [source,xml,indent=0,subs="verbatim"]
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ If the only change you need to make to logging is to set the levels of various l
 	    org.hibernate: "error"
 ----
 
-You can also set the location of a file to which to write the log (in addition to the console) by using `logging.file.name`.
+You can also set the location of a file to which the log will be written (in addition to the console) by using `logging.file.name`.
 
 To configure the more fine-grained settings of a logging system, you need to use the native configuration format supported by the `LoggingSystem` in question.
 By default, Spring Boot picks up the native configuration from its default location for the system (such as `classpath:logback.xml` for Logback), but you can set the location of the config file by using the configprop:logging.config[] property.

spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/howto/nosql.adoc

@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ This section answers questions that arise from using NoSQL with Spring Boot.
 === Use Jedis Instead of Lettuce
 By default, the Spring Boot starter (`spring-boot-starter-data-redis`) uses https://github.com/lettuce-io/lettuce-core/[Lettuce].
 You need to exclude that dependency and include the https://github.com/xetorthio/jedis/[Jedis] one instead.
-Spring Boot manages both of these dependencies so you can switch to Jedis without specifying a version.
+Spring Boot manages both of these dependencies, allowing you to switch to Jedis without specifying a version.
 
-The following example shows how to do so in Maven:
+The following example shows how to accomplish this in Maven:
 
 [source,xml,indent=0,subs="verbatim"]
 ----
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ The following example shows how to do so in Maven:
 	</dependency>
 ----
 
-The following example shows how to do so in Gradle:
+The following example shows how to accomplish this in Gradle:
 
 [source,gradle,indent=0,subs="verbatim"]
 ----

spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/howto/security.adoc

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ For more about Spring Security, see the {spring-security}[Spring Security projec
 
 [[howto.security.switch-off-spring-boot-configuration]]
 === Switch off the Spring Boot Security Configuration
-If you define a `@Configuration` with a `SecurityFilterChain` bean in your application, it switches off the default webapp security settings in Spring Boot.
+If you define a `@Configuration` with a `SecurityFilterChain` bean in your application, this action switches off the default webapp security settings in Spring Boot.
 
 
 
@@ -17,14 +17,14 @@ If you define a `@Configuration` with a `SecurityFilterChain` bean in your appli
 If you provide a `@Bean` of type `AuthenticationManager`, `AuthenticationProvider`, or `UserDetailsService`, the default `@Bean` for `InMemoryUserDetailsManager` is not created.
 This means you have the full feature set of Spring Security available (such as {spring-security-docs}/servlet/authentication/index.html[various authentication options]).
 
-The easiest way to add user accounts is to provide your own `UserDetailsService` bean.
+The easiest way to add user accounts is by providing your own `UserDetailsService` bean.
 
 
 
 [[howto.security.enable-https]]
 === Enable HTTPS When Running behind a Proxy Server
 Ensuring that all your main endpoints are only available over HTTPS is an important chore for any application.
-If you use Tomcat as a servlet container, then Spring Boot adds Tomcat's own `RemoteIpValve` automatically if it detects some environment settings, and you should be able to rely on the `HttpServletRequest` to report whether it is secure or not (even downstream of a proxy server that handles the real SSL termination).
+If you use Tomcat as a servlet container, then Spring Boot adds Tomcat's own `RemoteIpValve` automatically if it detects some environment settings, allowing you to rely on the `HttpServletRequest` to report whether it is secure or not (even downstream of a proxy server that handles the real SSL termination).
 The standard behavior is determined by the presence or absence of certain request headers (`x-forwarded-for` and `x-forwarded-proto`), whose names are conventional, so it should work with most front-end proxies.
 You can switch on the valve by adding some entries to `application.properties`, as shown in the following example:
 

spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/howto/testing.adoc

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ For example, the test in the snippet below will run with an authenticated user t
 
 include::code:MySecurityTests[]
 
-Spring Security provides comprehensive integration with Spring MVC Test and this can also be used when testing controllers using the `@WebMvcTest` slice and `MockMvc`.
+Spring Security provides comprehensive integration with Spring MVC Test, and this can also be used when testing controllers using the `@WebMvcTest` slice and `MockMvc`.
 
 For additional details on Spring Security's testing support, see Spring Security's {spring-security-docs}/servlet/test/index.html[reference documentation].