DEAPI: Platform object and right pattern to use

spulci

Hallo,

I've got my dynamic report done using DEAPI; some more polish to the code and everything is done. Now I want to implement the right pattern to instantiate the Platform object inside my web application. As far as I can understand I should have only one istance of Platform object (a singleton) shared by all report design istances.

To do so I can create the Platform at startup, binding it to a Tomcat context with a Platform.startup() on initialization and a Platform.shutdown() on destruction. Obviously a Factory pattern will help me to obtain the singleton to be passed to the report design engine.

The singleton should be of DesignConfig type; while I should have one different IDesignEngine istance for each user connect to my web app that needs to generate run-time a report as well as a distinct SessionHandle for each user.

Is this the right way to procede?

Thanks a lot

Simon

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