SomedayMaybe

eXist can be shut down via the admin webapp or the Java client. However, there's no way to bring it up again unless you restart the Java virtual machine.

It would be good to have a "reload" command, which cleanly shuts down eXist and restarts it immediately after. The command would need to trigger a class which resides outside of the XQuery engine, maybe via the job scheduler. This class could then shut down and reload eXist.