These constructors set some private members that are the most common configuration. The other two are for Remote mode, where one requires both the hostname and port, whilst the other requires the hostname and uses the default port of 9099. The first has no parameters and is for the Local mode. The way the class is instantiated defines whether it will attempt to use the Remote or Local mode of the P6 Java API session. import .Session import .RMIURL import import .ClientException import .NetworkException import import

There are two final imports as I make use of the Java logging classes. In fact nearly every Primavera P6 class seems to throw, .ClientExceptiPrimaveraon and .NetworkException. In the case of PrimaveraP6, the Session and RMIURL classes are used to login and there are three exception classes that can be thrown by the login method. Anyone new to programming with the Oracle Primavera P6 Java API will soon learn there are a lot of imports required to do some simple things. The class definition starts off with all the imports that are needed to create a P6 Java API session. The class is called PrimaveraP6 to distinguish it from other Primavera tools such as Unifier where I would call the equivalent class PrimaveraUnifier.

The full code listing is at the end of this article, but first of all, I wanted to spend a little time just walking through it. It’s more of a helper class than anything else and as a result saves writing the same kind of code over and over again. In this article, I’ll share the class I use to get logged in to Primavera P6 in either mode and consequently get started fairly quickly in any environment. The P6 Java API can be run in local mode, where all the work is done on the same machine as the application, or it can be run in the remote mode where a web server does the heavy lifting and the application tells it what to do and gets the results back. No matter what else goes on in any application using the P6 Java API, they all have to create a session and log in, therefore, the class shown in this post should be useful. Having installed the P6 Integration API, the next step for any would be P6 programmer is to write code that will login to a P6 Java API Session so they can work their developer magic on P6. The official Oracle Primavera P6 Documentation will tell you how to do that. First of all, before starting to write any code, one has to install the Oracle Primavera P6 Integration API.

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