-The Enrichment Coordinator Service is a Java 11 web application built using the Spring Framework.
-Using Spring Boot dependencies, it runs as a standalone application.
+The Enrichment Coordinator Service is a Java 11 web application built using the Spring Framework. Using Spring Boot
+dependencies, it runs as a standalone application.
+
+Its main functionality is to act as a data subscription broker and to decouple data producer from data consumers.
+
+See the ./config/README file in the *enrichment-coordinator-service* directory Gerrit repo on how to create and setup
+the certificates and private keys needed for HTTPS.
+
+Start standalone
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+
+The project uses Maven. To start the Enrichment Coordinator Service as a freestanding application, run the following
+command in the *enrichment-coordinator-service* directory:
+
+ +-----------------------------+
+ | mvn spring-boot:run |
+ +-----------------------------+
+
+Start in Docker
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+
+To build and deploy the Enrichment Coordinator Service, go to the "enrichment-coordinator-service" folder and run the
+following command:
+
+ +-----------------------------+
+ | mvn clean install |
+ +-----------------------------+