Lightstreamer Server should be started as a jar file, but the correct way to do this is shown in the launch script provided in the package under the Lightstreamer/bin folder.
If you can't use a shell script, you should try to reproduce in your environment the command line used in our scripts.
Then the Server, if configured with the reference to your Adapters, will load and run the Adapters upon startup.
Do you need to run the Server from inside a development tool with the purpose of testing the Adapter source code?