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The REST API deploys as a standard webapp for your servlet container / tomcat. For example, depending on how you deploy webapps, one way would be to alter tomcat-home/conf/server.xml and add:

<Context path="/rest"

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  docBase="/dspace/webapps/rest"

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 />

In DSpace 4, the initial/official Jersey-based REST API was added to DSpace. The DSpace 4 REST API provides READ-ONLY access to DSpace Objects.

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<Context path="/rest" docBase="/dspace/webapps/rest" allowLinking="true"/>

Additional Information

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