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 **Find out more:** www.canterbury.ac.nz/courseinfo/GetCourses.aspx?course=SENG302
 
- 
+### Running the discovery server
+
+```
+  xvfb-run -a -e server.log java -jar app.jar -runAsDiscoveryServer
+```
+