You can specify Startup and Shutdown procedures for a state-aware or stateless AppServer. You cannot specify Startup and Shutdown procedures for a state-reset AppServer.
Note that both the Startup and Shutdown procedures are optional. There is no requirement to specify either or both of them. Additionally, the content of these procedures is completely application specific, and the AppServer architecture places no constraints on it. Any ABL logic that is valid within an AppServer agent is valid for these procedures.
Note: In Progress Version 8, you used the Connect procedure to program all startup activities on an AppServer agent. With the introduction of reusable and stateless servers much of the logic that you might have put into the Connect procedure for the Version 8 AppServer is now more appropriate for the Startup procedure. Similarly, much of the logic in a Version 8 Disconnect procedure might be more appropriate for the Shutdown procedure.
