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+# Open Video Conference (OVC) Backend Documentation
+Java Backend API for DVB Booking Portal
+
+Backend application created using:
+* Spring Boot
+* Spring Web MVC Rest Controllers + Swagger
+* Spring JPA + Hibernate
+* Postgresql DB
+
+## REST API Documentation (OpenAPI 3.0)
+The OVC backend API has an auto-generated Swagger (OpenAPI 3.0) documentation.
+One can see the REST endpoints documentation as a web page in a web-browser.
+
+In order to see the documentation, the backend application must be running.
+The url for that page follows the pattern:
+`https://{{ backend-app-domain }}/swagger-ui/index.html`
+
+For instance, for the integration environment, the url is:
+https://ovc-backend.nordeck.io/swagger-ui/index.html.
+
+## Running the docker containers for DB & App
+```sh
+docker compose build
+docker compose up
+```
+
+## Application health
+We use the Spring Actuator endpoint in order to check if the application is running:
+``` 
+http://{{ backend-app-domain }}/actuator/health
+```
+The response should be:
+```json
+{
+  "status": "UP"
+}
+```