What Happens When You Click on WEM / CQ Quickstart JAR File for the First Time (till CQ5.4)

1. The Quickstart is unpacked to the /crx-quickstart directory
2. CQSE is started (this can be accessed using host:port/admin)
3. CQSE starts the CRX webapp (this can be accessed using host:port/crx)
4. The CRX webapp starts the repository
5. During repository startup, it checks the repository/install folder for content packages and installs them
6. The Launchpad webapp is started (this can be accessed using host:port/system/console
7. Felix starts the core bundles
8. One of the core bundles is the JCR installer, which searches all ‘install’ nodes in the repository and registers those bundles
9. Felix starts the newly registered bundles
10. As part of the newly started bundles CQ apps load (this starts CQ)