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This question pertains to life cycle of GlassFish server. Here you go:

• The only documented way to start the GlassFish server is asadmin start-domain. So, the script asadmin starts the GlassFish server VM and then it (script) exits.
• The developer/administrator then comes along and executes asadmin stop-domain.
  

How does asadmin script with this command stop the *same* server that you started (with previous invocation of start-domain command)?

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