# Shutting down by using the API

You can use the NetworkServerControl API to shut down the Network Server from within a Java application. The name of the method that you use to shutdown the Network Server is `shutdown()`.

For example, the following command shuts down the Network Server running on the current machine using the default port number (1527):

    NetworkServerControl server = new NetworkServerControl();
    server.shutdown();

To shut down a server running with user authentication, you need to use a NetworkServerControl instance created with user credentials:

    NetworkServerControl server = new NetworkServerControl(username, password);
    server.shutdown();

Parent topic: Shutting down the Network Server
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