Understanding iWay Service Manager Restart Methods

When making changes using iWay Service Manager that impact your Java Runtime Environment (JRE), the CLASSPATH variable, or special register settlings, iWay Service Manager must be restarted to apply these changes. The following methods of restarting iWay Service Manager are available:

By understanding the differences between these two methods, you can determine which restart method is required depending on the type of change that is made.

A full restart, which is also known as a cold or hard restart, must be used whenever changes to the JRE and CLASSPATH variable are made. These also include changing Java Virtual Machine (JVM) options, register libraries, providers, and adding files to the iway7/lib directory. In the case of a full restart, all portions of the JRE are loaded from disk.

A console restart, which is also known as a warm or soft restart, is faster than a full restart and can be used when changes to special register settings are made. In the case of a console restart, most of the JRE is already available in the cache, and is loaded from RAM instead of from disk.

For more information on restarting iWay Service Manager, see Class Path and Service Manager Restart Issues.


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