--- description: >- Documentation to get you upto speed on building, running and testing backend server for OpenMetadata --- # 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 {% content-ref url="https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/main/docs/open-source-community/developer/backend/coding-style.md" %} [https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/main/docs/open-source-community/developer/backend/coding-style.md](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/main/docs/open-source-community/developer/backend/coding-style.md) {% endcontent-ref %} {% content-ref url="https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/main/docs/open-source-community/developer/backend/code-generation.md" %} [https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/main/docs/open-source-community/developer/backend/code-generation.md](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/main/docs/open-source-community/developer/backend/code-generation.md) {% endcontent-ref %} {% content-ref url="https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/main/docs/open-source-community/developer/backend/env-setup.md" %} [https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/main/docs/open-source-community/developer/backend/env-setup.md](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/main/docs/open-source-community/developer/backend/env-setup.md) {% endcontent-ref %} {% content-ref url="https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/main/docs/open-source-community/developer/backend/debugging.md" %} [https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/main/docs/open-source-community/developer/backend/debugging.md](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/main/docs/open-source-community/developer/backend/debugging.md) {% endcontent-ref %}