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The DSpace Backend provides the REST API, which is required by the DSpace Frontend. It also provides additional machine interfaces for interacting with data in DSpace, such as OAI-PMH, SWORDv2 Server, SWORDv1 Server and various command-line (CLI) tools. The DSpace backend can be run standalone, but it doesn't provide a user friendly web interface (which is why the DSpace frontend is recommended).

The DSpace Backend is built on Spring Boot, written in Java.  The REST API portion of the backend is built on Spring Technologies, including Spring REST, Spring HATEOAS, and aligns with Spring Data REST. The REST API uses the Spring Data REST Hal Browser as a basic web interface for exploring the REST API.

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