When you restart an Oracle Commerce Platform application, it starts up the services specified by the initialServices property of the /atg/dynamo/Initial component. You may add services to this list while you are developing your application. These services may in turn start up other components. Starting up a service at the same time as the Oracle Commerce Platform ensures that the service is created and ready when it is first called upon. However, if too many services are configured to start up at the same time, then the Oracle Commerce Platform startup routine can become time-consuming and server restarts may be slow, which might make it more difficult to recover and restart if a server runs into problems. If server startups seem to be taking too long, consider whether some services can be started up on some other schedule than immediately on startup.

If you set the loggingInfo property of the Nucleus component (with a Nucleus path of /) to true, and then start up the Oracle Commerce Platform, the resulting info messages display an indented list of when each service starts up. From this list, you can determine which component causes which other components to be started.