Version 8.2 (2013-03-18)
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How Things Start

This document covers the following topics:


Starting an Application Designer Session

The proper start of a session is to open an Application Designer page via the StartCISPage servlet.

Example: If you start the "Hello World!" page with the following URL, a new Application Designer session object with a new session ID is automatically created on the server side:

http://localhost:51000/cis/servlet/StartCISPage?PAGEURL=/cisyourfirstproject/helloworld.html

The logical counter part of the page - the HelloWorldAdapter object - is opened inside a subsession that is automatically created inside the Application Designer session.

Start session

You see that inside one Application Designer session, there is always at least one subsession.

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Starting Additional Application Designer Subsessions

You may use your pages in a mode in which you always work inside one Application Designer subsession - the one which was created during the StartCISPage procedure. But maybe you want to start additional subsessions.

There are two good reasons for starting additional subsessions:

The starting of a new Application Designer subsession is done by opening a page inside a frame or inside an Application Designer subpage via Application Designer APIs.

Application Designer offers APIs (in class com.softwareag.cis.server.Adapter) to open Application Designer pages in a certain frame. These APIs always have one "simple" variant and one "complex" variant:

The proper call for a page which should belong to a new subsession is:

...
...

public void onOpenNewPage()
{
    // create new subsession id
    String newSSID = UniqueIdMgmt.createPseudoGUID();
    openCISPageInTarget("...URL...",newSSID,"...TARGET...");
}
...
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