# Starting the application on WAS 7

Once the Discovery Framework application has been deployed, and the portal-ext.properties file has been configured and deployed, the application needs to be started.

The following steps describe this process in the IBM Integrated Solutions Console.

To start the application:

1. Go to Applications > Application Types > WebSphere Enterprise Applications and select the enterprise application created when you deployed the portal WAR.
2. If it is not already running, click Start to start it.
3. View your deployed application at the root context of the server.
4. Restart WAS 7.