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Arbortext Publishing Engine Request Context Object
The Arbortext Publishing Engine Request Context is an object that implements the Java interface com.arbortext.e3.E3RequestContext. The Arbortext Publishing Engine Request Context object is passed to the initialization method of every dynamic component object. Dynamic Components should save the object for use during request processing. The Arbortext Publishing Engine Request Context object offers the following capabilities:
scheduling deferred cleanup tasks
allocating Arbortext PE sub-processes to requests
creating mock HTTP requests for internal use
allocating temporary files
accessing the allowed function list
accessing global parameters
accessing all Dynamic Components
accessing all Arbortext PE sub-process pools
accessing the Java Servlet configuration and context objects
accessing version information for both the Arbortext PE Request Manager and Arbortext PE sub-processes
providing log status and debug information