Starting business-level applications
We can start a business-level application that is not running (has a status of Stopped). The application must contain code that can run on a server to start.
The application must be installed on a server. By default, the application starts automatically when the server starts.
We can start and stop business-level applications manually using the administrative console or wsadmin commands.
This topic describes how to use the administrative console to start a business-level application.
Tasks
- Go to the Business-level applications page.
Click Applications > Application Types > Business-level applications in the console navigation tree.
- Select the check box for the application you want started.
- Click Start. The product runs the application and changes the state of the application to Started. The status is changed to partially started if not all servers on which the application is deployed are running.
A message stating that the application started is displayed.
If the business-level application does not start, ensure that the deployment target to which the application maps is running and try starting the application again.
(ZOS) If an application server on which the application is deployed synchronizes configuration with the deployment manager during server startup, then the application might not start and a DeploymentDescriptorLoadException error might be written to the server SystemErr.log file. Stop and restart the server, and then try starting the application again.
IBM recommends using the High Performance Extensible Logging (HPEL) log and trace infrastructure . We view HPEL log and trace information using the LogViewer .
In multiple-node environments, synchronize the nodes after you save changes to the target before starting the business-level application.
What to do next
To restart a running application, select the application you want to restart, click Stop and then click Start.
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