Distributed software application software component recovery in an ordered sequence

An apparatus, comprising:

• a high availability manager component of a high availability infrastructure for a distributed software application that comprises a plurality of software components;
• one or more executable managers of the high availability infrastructure;
• wherein the plurality of software components comprise management support software, wherein the management support software comprises a portion of the high availability infrastructure;
• wherein the high availability manager component, the one or more executable managers, and the management support software cooperate to recover two or more of the plurality of software components in an ordered sequence based on one or more dependency relationships among the plurality of software components.