Find if in sequence editor API call

I swear I found this somewhere once but can't find it now. What is the API call (or other mechanism) to determine if I'm running from the sequence editor versus a UI?
What I want to do is if running from sequence editor, make one call, but if running from UI, make another.
Thanks.
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RunState.IsEditor
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The Java Mapping code is same in Dev , QAS and Prod. Also the versions of the JAR is same.
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import com.sap.aii.mapping.api.AbstractTransformation;
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import com.sap.aii.mapping.api.DynamicConfigurationKey;
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import com.sap.aii.mapping.api.TransformationOutput;
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import java.util.*;
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import org.w3c.dom.views.AbstractView;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
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//import java.io.FileOutputStream;*/
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import java.util.Date;
import java.io.*;
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