Once you have packaged the runtime image of you application, you can install it (along with the other files required by your VAST application) on your server. Refer to the Instantiations Web page for more information about the files required on a runtime system. In addition to the files required for any VA Smalltalk application, a Web Connection application also requires certain files. Please check our Web page for the additional Required Runtime Files as well.

Remember that you must also set up the WSI and its configuration file on your HTTP server. See Setting up the Web Connection server interface for information on setting up WSI.

Start a Web Connection application just as you would start any packaged VA Smalltalk application. If you packaged the WSI Monitor with your application, the WSI Monitor will open when the application starts. You can then use the monitor window to start a server process, just as when you start the server in a development environment. You will not see any windows on the local screen except for the server process window.

If you do not want to start a server process manually after the application starts, you can use optional command-line arguments to specify the WSI Smalltalk server start-up parameters. (These same arguments are also valid when starting a development image.) The complete syntax for the optional Web Connection command-line arguments is as follows:

Replace fileName with the name of a file containing server configuration information. (See Server configuration file format for information about the format of a server configuration file.) If you want to start multiple WSI server processes on different ports, you can do so by specifying multiple -wc:fileName strings (separated by spaces) on the command line.