Custom External Objects from LS 3.0 to LS LiveSite 7.3.1

elenav

Hello,

we have developed some external objects on the Livesite version 3.0.
Now we have to move these external objects to the newer version of Livesite 7.3.1.

First of all I would like to know if someone has done the same thing and what differences has found.

The first problem we have is that the old external objects were instantiated as:

public class ExternalObject extends BaseDispatchExternal

and BaseDispatchExternal was included in the livesite-runtime.jar.

Now the class BaseDispatchExternal is not included in the new livesite-runtime.jar of the version 7.3.1. Is it correct that new external objects don't extend anything?

We also have problems on the RequestContext.getParameters method. It seems to be deprecated...we wanted to use the RequestContext.getParameterString as written in the userguide but it is deprecated too....what should we do?

I appreciate any suggestions....

Thank you very much,
Elena