public List<String> getProjectAreas(){
List<String> projectAreas = null;

TeamPlatform.startup();
try {
// code for login and retrieving active project areas

} catch (Exception x) {
x.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (TeamPlatform.isStarted()) {
TeamPlatform.shutdown();
}

}
return projectAreas;
}

You should start the TeamPlatform when your application starts and shut
it down when your application ends.

I'm also seeing the same problem. I don't think the previous response
answers the question / issue.

Hi,

I got a problem with TeamPlatform.shutdown(). I have a widget with a button "Show Available Project Areas". The button has a listener that calls the following method ]

Jazz team, please check this answer, since it may have changed in recent releases: You should skip the call to shutdown() altogether.

This has been a bug in TeamPlatform.shutdown() since the first release of RTC. I haven't checked the recent source code, but in earlier versions, there weere two private boolean variables "isStarted" and "isStopped"; both were initialized to false. Starting the team platform changes "isStarted" to true, but doesn't change isStopped. TeamPlatform.shutdown() checks whether the internal boolean "isStopped" is true or false. If it's false, it sets it to true, but doesn't really do anything else (which is why you can skip calling it during your program, and at the end of the program, garbage collection and other shutdown code takes care of releasing resources). If it's true, it throws the exception you're getting. But after that first time, it will always be true because TeamPlatform.startup() doesn't reset "isStopped" to false.

This is significant if, for example, you're calling the code from a servlet. You need to start the platform the first time the servlet executes, but if you stop it in your servlet code, you'll get the exception when another user calls the servlet.

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Already stopped    
at com.ibm.team.repository.common.internal.util.InternalTeamPlatform.shutdown(InternalTeamPlatform.java:113)    
at com.ibm.team.repository.client.TeamPlatform.shutdown(TeamPlatform.java:61)
	

if(TeamPlatform.isStarted())TeamPlatform.shutdown();