h1. Introduction

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The ZIP archive comes with elementary startup and stop mechanisms. No automatic startup is provided. It does not support several container with only one installation. If you need these features, see "[Installing Petals ESB using the Debian packages]" or write yours.

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In this chapter, we consider that the Petals ESB ZIP archive was extracted in the directory {{$PETALS_HOME}}.
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h1. Starting Petals ESB

To start the Petals ESB container configured in {{$PETALS_HOME}}/conf, go into the directory {{$PETALS_HOME/bin}} and execute the following command from a command-line:
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cdeneux@sph-latitude-D630:~/petals-esb/bin/petals-esb.sh
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Use the script {{petals-esb.bat}} instead of {{petals-esb.sh}} for Windows-based system.
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Use the JAVA_OPTS environment variable to add more JVM options. They will take precedence over those specified in {{$PETALS_HOME/conf/env.sh}} but both will nevertheless be used.
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h1. Stopping Petals ESB

To stop a Petals ESB container, just kill it with a Ctrl-C on its console, or use the following command from another shell:
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cdeneux@sph-latitude-D630:~/petals-esb/bin/petals-esb.sh stop
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