A context is a lightweight, immutable object that is used to retrieve a specific administration interface instance. You create a connection to the SAP Mobile Server when you invoke an API (such as ping) on a supported interface (such as SUPServer), but not when context objects (such as AgentContext or ServerContext) are initialized. There is no need to maintain the states of contexts because state changes are not supported.
| Context | Description |
|---|---|
| AgentContext | Optional. Connects to SAP Mobile Platform, which acts as a proxy and manages the connection to the SAP Mobile Server instance identified in the ServerContext. |
| DefaultAdminContext | The super class of other concrete context classes. |
| AdminContext | The AdminContext is an interface that all context classes implement. |
| ServerContext | Required to connect to the SAP Mobile Server instance. If you do not specify an AgentContext, the ServerContext creates one for you using default values. See Connecting to an SAP Mobile Server Instance. Use this context to retrieve the ClusterContext. |
| ClusterContext | Required to manage a specific cluster. Use this context to retrieve the DomainContext. |
| DomainContext | Required to manage a specific domain. Use this context to retrieve the PackageContext. |
| PackageContext | Required to deploy and manage a package. Use this context to retrieve the MBOContext. |
| MBOContext | Required to manage a mobile business object. Use this context to retrieve the OperationContext. |
| OperationContext | Required to manage an operation. |
| SecurityContext | Required to manage the security for the platform. |
For details on these classes, and the methods that implement them, see the Javadocs for com.sybase.sup.admin.client.