Configuring WebSphere Application Server Community Edition as a Windows service

You can configure WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition as a Windows service. The Windows service can then be set to start automatically on system startup. Instances of the connection manager, the manager, and the service interface that are on WebSphere Application Server Community Edition also start automatically on system startup.

The computer must have Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 or higher installed.

To configure WebSphere Application Server Community Edition as a Windows service:
  1. If WebSphere Application Server Community Edition is not installed to the default location at C:\IBM\InfoSphere\Optim\shared\WebSphere\AppServerCommunityEdition, complete the following steps:
    1. Open the folder in which you installed WebSphere Application Server Community Edition.
    2. Open the bin folder, and then open the appServerService.xml file in that folder by using a text editor such as Notepad.
    3. Change the value of the wasceLocation entity to the folder in which you installed WebSphere Application Server Community Edition, and save the changed appServerService.xml file.
    4. Open the optimService.bat file in that folder by using a text editor such as Notepad.
    5. Change the WASCE_BIN value to server_location\bin, where server_location is the folder in which you installed WebSphere Application Server Community Edition, and save the changed optimService.bat file.
    For example, you install WebSphere Application Server Community Edition to D:\Applications\Optim\WASCE. In this case, use Notepad to open D:\Applications\Optim\WASCE\appServerService.xml and change the wasceLocation value to D:\Applications\Optim\WASCE. Next, open D:\Applications\Optim\WASCE\optimService.bat and change the WASCE_BIN value to D:\Applications\Optim\WASCE\bin.
  2. If you configure WebSphere Application Server Community Edition to use a non-default user name, password, and port number, configure the service to use these values. By default, WebSphere Application Server Community Edition is configured to use system as the user name, manager as the password, and 1099 as the port number. Complete the following steps:
    1. Open the folder in which you installed WebSphere Application Server Community Edition.
    2. Open the bin folder, and then open the optimService.bat file in that folder by using a text editor such as Notepad.
    3. Change the USER, PASSWORD, and PORT values to the values that you configured for WebSphere Application Server Community Edition.
  3. Open the command prompt by clicking Start > Run and entering the command cmd.
  4. Enter the following commands at the command prompt, where server_location is the location in which WebSphere Application Server Community Edition is installed: 
    cd server_location/bin
appServerService.exe install
appServerService.exe start
You can check on the progress of WebSphere Application Server Community Edition by looking at the contents of log files. There are 3 log files:
  • server_location/var/log/appServerService.err.log
  • server_location/var/log/appServerService.out.log
  • server_location/var/log/appServerService.wrapper.log
To stop and uninstall the service, enter the following commands at the command prompt. 
cd server_location/bin
appServerService.exe stop
appServerService.exe uninstall