If you ever uninstalled an application from RAD 6’s embedded WebSphere using its admin console (http://localhost:9060/ibm/console), you may encounter a bizarre situation in RAD.
If RAD was used to install the application into WebSphere, it will now fail to ‘recognize’ that WebSphere started up even when it does, and will keep the ‘Starting…’ state going for the server status. The only way I could find to cure this ill is to reinstall the application – again from the admin console – and then try to start the server from RAD.
How do you start and stop the server from outside of RAD?
Go to {WEBSPHERE_HOME}/bin/startServer.(bat or sh) server1 (or whatever name your server uses).