Chapter 1: Introduction

Starting system components

Before you start the tutorials, you must:

Start the Unwired Accelerator server, which includes the portal database (portaldb) and the sample database (sampledb). The tutorials in this guide use the sampledb database. See “Sample database and application”.
Start the application server. The Tomcat application server is included with Unwired Accelerator.

If you are using EAServer as your application server, use the EAServer instructions for starting or stopping Mobile Web Studio in the applications server.

Starting the database and application servers

From a Command Prompt window, go to the installation directory where you unzipped the installation file, for example, SYBASE\UA65, and enter:
```
startdb
```
You can also double-click the file in Windows Explorer to start the database.

This starts the Adaptive Server Anywhere database. When database starts, you see the icon for the Sybase ASA database appears in your taskbar.
From the same Command Prompt window enter:
```
starttomcat
```
You can also double-click the file in Windows Explorer. This starts the Tomcat application server. When Tomcat starts, you see a series of messages including the following:
```
Starting service Tomcat-Standalone
Apache Tomcat/4.1.29
```
When you see this message, minimize the window (do not close the window, or the application server stops running). You can ignore the rest of the messages.

Stopping the database and application servers

Typically you leave application server and database running. If you do need to stop them, use these steps. If you do stop them, you must restart them to complete the tutorial.

From the same Command Prompt window enter:
```
stoptomcat
```
You can also double-click the file in Windows Explorer. This stops the Tomcat application server.
From a Command Prompt window, go to the installation directory where you unzipped the installation file, for example, SYBASE\UA65, and enter:
```
stopdatabase
```
You can also double-click the file in Windows Explorer. This stops the database.

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