Tomcat and Resin have a cross-context invoker feature. See http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/config/context.html
Yes I am aware of those, but it still doesn't solve the problem of dispatching to a Portlet API portlet. The entry point for one of those portlets is a class that complies to a certain interface. For a Servlet in a different web application we can dispatch by doing something like this :
ServletContext otherWebAppContext = ServletContext.getContext(otherWebAppContextPath);
RequestDispatcher otherWebAppDispatcher = otherWebAppContext.getRequestDispatcher(otherWebAppURI)
otherWebAppDispatcher.include(request, response);
But there is no equivalent for portlets. How can I call the doView method of a certain portlet ? You'd need a way to access the classloader of the other context. From what I understand in the implementation that is being proposed to the ASF there will be a JAR that integrates with Tomcat (meaning it will not be deployed in a context class loader but in Tomcat's classloader, providing access down to all sub class loaders) to provide access to the portlets, but this is very container specific and will have to be modified to run on any other application server.
Regards, Serge Huber.
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