User Guide

974 Chapter 6: ColdFusion MX Event Gateway Reference
start
Description
starts a gateway running.
Category
Event Gateway Development
Syntax
public void start()
See also
restart
, stop, “The start method” in Chapter 45, “Creating Custom Event Gateways” in
ColdFusion MX Developer’s Guide
Usage
Start a gateway by performing any required initialization. This method starts any listener thread
or threads that monitor the gateway’s event source. The ColdFusion MX Administrator calls this
function when it starts a gateway instance.
This method should update the status information that is returned by the
getStatus method to
indicate when the gateway is starting and when the gateway is running.
The ColdFusion MX Administrator Gateway Types page lets you specify a time-out for the
gateway startup, and whether to kill the gateway on startup time-out. If you enable the kill option
and the
start method does not return in the time-out period, ColdFusion MX will kill the
thread that called this function.
Example
The following example is the ColdFusion MX SocketGateway class restart method:
public void start()
{
status = STARTING;
listening=true;
// Start up event generator thread
Runnable r = new Runnable()
{
public void run()
{
socketServer();
}
};
Thread t = new Thread(r);
t.start();
status = RUNNING;
}