When you start an application server, a new server process starts. This new server process is based on the process definition settings of the current server configuration.
Before you start an application server, verify that all of the application required resources are available. You must also start all prerequisite subsystems.
If you want server components to dynamically start as they are needed by the installed applications, verify that the Start components as needed option is selected in the configuration settings for the application server before you start the application server. Selecting this option can improve startup time, and reduce the memory footprint of the application server. Starting components as they are needed is most effective if all of the applications that are deployed on the server are of the same type. For example, using this option works better if all of your applications are Web applications that use servlets, and JavaServer Pages (JSP). This option works less effectively if your applications use servlets, JSPs and Enterprise JavaBeans™ (EJB).
This procedure for starting a server also typically applies to restarting a server. The one exception might be if a server fails and you want the recovery functions to complete their processing prior to new work being started on that server. In this situation, you must restart the server in recovery mode.
If you create any additional application servers, you cannot start, stop, or manage these servers using the administrative console that is associated with the original base server. You must either use command-line tools to perform these tasks for the additional servers, set up an administrative console for each server, or configure an administrative agent to provide a single interface to all of your servers, including the original base server. An administrative agent makes it easier to more fully administer these unfederated application servers.
There are several options available for starting an application server.
The specified server starts. To verify that the server is in start state, in the administrative console, click
.After the server starts, deploy the applications that you want to run on this server.
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