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An example of this can be found in this work-in-progress PR: LINK COMING SOONhttps://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2231
What is the benefit?
Deploying the DSpace backend as a single web application makes it much easier to install/deploy within Tomcat. We also could consider using Spring Boot's capability to embed Tomcat directly, so that deployment is as simple as running the application.
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