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description: >-
  Documentation to get you upto speed on building, running and testing backend
  server for OpenMetadata
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# Backend

We use Java for developing OpenMetadata backend server. Following are the key technologies that we use for the backend:

* [jsonschema2pojo](https://www.jsonschema2pojo.org) for Java code generation
* [Dropwizard](https://www.dropwizard.io/en/latest/) for the web service application
* [JDBI3](http://jdbi.org) for database access

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