3. Configuration and Operation

This chapter describes the configuration and operation of the Headless Server.

Deployment

The Headless Server is a Spring Boot application that can be deployed as a container or as a standalone Spring Boot jar. See the Deployment Manual for details.

Plugin support

The Headless Server offers the ability to integrate custom code and resources via a plugin mechanism, using so called extension points. Adding code and resources to the Headless Server by a plugin has the advantage, that a plugin may have its very own build and deployment cycle, making this approach independent from the build and deployment cycle of the Headless Server itself.

For general details about plugins please see Section 4.1.6, “Application Plugins” in Blueprint Developer Manual . For details about the headless specific extension points and resource types please see Section 4.14, “Plugin Support”.