The OE Web Server is installed in a Web Server as a single Web application that you can instantiate as one or more OE Web Server instances. Each OE Web Server instance provides a single point of management for one or more deployed REST Web Applications. Thus, to begin working with the OE Web Server in OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer:

  1. Create a new OE Web Server instance if none exists or you need another, and configure it for operation. (The OE Web Server comes installed with one local OE Web Server instance (restmgr1)).
  2. For an OE Web Server instance where you want to deploy a new REST Web application, optionally review and update the default property settings that govern the run-time behavior of new REST Web application deployments. You can also adjust these settings for each REST Web application individually after you deploy it.
  3. Deploy the new REST Web application into the context of an OE Web Server instance that you have configured.
  4. As you test the REST Web application, review the OE Web Server instance status and statistics, and update any OE Web Server instance properties as needed. Such changes affect all REST Web Applications deployed to the same OE Web Server instance.
    Note: To apply changes to most REST Web application properties, you must restart the Web Server where the REST Web application is installed. You can make temporary changes to selected REST Web application properties at run time without restarting the Web Server. However, you must update the REST Web application instance configuration to make these changes permanent.
  5. As you client-test the REST Web application, review the REST Web application status and statistics, and update any REST Web application properties as needed. Such changes affect only the selected REST Web application. For most of these changes, you must disable the REST Web application before you make them, then enable the REST Web application afterward to evaluate the effect.