Hi Cay,
DAS stands for "Domain Administration Server" actually this is
the j2ee instance that hosts your j2ee apps and do all the
administrative work like deploy/create-*-resource/etc....
Without starting it fully you cannot have a functional j2ee instance to
run your application. You might have ran into a bug that took the
command to wait for ever to while the DAS is starting.
HTH
Sankar
Cay Horstmann wrote:
> I just upgraded to b66.
>
> Here is what I got.
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> $ asadmin start-domain --domaindir /home/domains
> Waiting for DAS to start.
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> That long line of dots did not brighten my morning.
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> I don't know what DAS is or why I need to wait for it to start. And
> then when it didn't start, why add insult to injury by printing out
> these dots? How about instead printing out a message that tells me
> what I can do when it doesn't start?
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> I ended up killing the process and trying again. It worked the next time.
>
> Cay
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