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 # RIC Dashboard Web Application Backend
 
-## Development server
+The RIC Dashboard back-end provides REST services to the Dashboard
+front-end Typescript features running in the user's browser.  For
+production use, it also serves the Angular application files.
 
-Run `mvn -Dspring.profiles.active=mock spring-boot:run` for a dev server. Navigate to `http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui.html`. 
+Please see the documentation in the docs/ folder.
 
-## Alternate configuration
-
-Run `mvn -Dspring.config.name=application-abc spring-boot:run` to read configuration from the file 'application-abc.properties' in the local directory.
+The backend server publishes live API documentation at the
+URL `http://your-host-name-here:8080/swagger-ui.html`
 
 ## License