Stopping application server

From the administrative console, you have the following options to stop an
application server:

• Stop: quiesces the application server and stops it.


• Immediate Stop: stops the server, but bypasses the normal server quiesce process that supports in-flight requests to complete before shutting down the entire server process. This shutdown mode is faster than the normal server stop processing, but some application clients can receive exceptions.


• Terminate deletes the application server process. Use this if immediate stop
  fails to stop the server.