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In web applications, the kernel can be started and accessed through the use of Servlet Filter/ContextListeners which are provided as part of the DSpace 2 utilities. Developers don't need to understand what is going on behind the scenes and can simply write their applications and package them as webapps and take advantage of the services which are offered by DSpace 2.
Application Frameworks (Spring, Guice, etc.)
Similar to Standalone Applications, but you can use your framework to instantiate an org.dspace.utils.DSpace
object.
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