# Launching and stopping appium server programmtically

**URL:** <https://discuss.appium.io/t/launching-and-stopping-appium-server-programmtically/700>\
**Category:** Tutorials/Documentation\
**Created:** [October 5, 2014, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/launching-and-stopping-appium-server-programmtically/700 "2014-10-05T05:14:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![maxski](https://discuss.appium.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@maxski](https://discuss.appium.io/u/maxski)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/launching-and-stopping-appium-server-programmtically/700/17 "2014-11-24T10:00:37Z")

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Parent java process from the screenshot above - is IDE:-)  
Just test run via “mvn test” command-line and got the same result: all processes closed perfectly!  
 ![](https://discuss.appium.io/uploads/default/414/2cf64ed2bd4e4e93.png)

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