Startup behavior settings

Use this page to configure when an application starts compared to other applications and to the server, and to configure whether MBeans for resources are created when an application starts.

To view this administrative console page, click Applications > Enterprise Applications > application_name > Startup behavior.

Attention: If an application is running, changing an application setting causes the application to restart. On stand-alone servers, the application restarts after you save the change. On multiple-server products, the application restarts after you save the change and files synchronize on the node where the application is installed.

Configuration tab

Startup order

Specifies the order in which applications are started when the server starts. The startup order is like a starting weight. The application with the lowest starting weight is started first.

Tip: For Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) applications, the <load-on-startup> tag in the sip.xml file affects the order in which applications are started. The value that you set for Startup order on this Startup behavior console page determines the importance or weight of an application within a composition of SIP applications. For example, for the most important SIP application within a SIP application composition, specify 1 for Startup order. For the next most important SIP application within the composition, specify 2 for Startup order, and so on.
Data type Integer
Default 1
Range 0 to 2147483647

Launch application before server completes startup

Specifies whether the application must initialize fully before the server starts.

The default setting of false indicates that server startup will not complete until the application starts.

A setting of true informs the product that the application might start on a background thread and thus server startup might continue without waiting for the application to start. Thus, the application might not be ready for use when the application server starts.

This setting applies only if the application is run on a Version 6 application server.

Avoid trouble [z/OS] Avoid trouble: Specifying this startup behavior setting is not valid for an application that is mapped to an application server that runs on the z/OS platform. gotcha
Data type Boolean
Default false

Create MBeans for resources

Specifies whether to create MBeans for various resources, such as servlets or Java ServerPages (JSP) files, within an application when the application starts. The default is to create MBeans.

Data type Boolean
Default true



Related concepts
Enterprise (J2EE) applications
Related tasks
Configuring application startup
Configuring J2EE applications
Setting up SIP application composition
Related reference
Enterprise application settings
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