On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 07:31:02PM +0300, Eugeny N Dzhurinsky wrote:
> Hi!
> I need some advice - our portal have the "edit" page, which needs to be edited
> using the popup-windows. We are populating the windows, which are regular JSP
> pages placed on some context where portlet is deployed in the container. The
> JSP should read the data provided by the user, and store the objects in the
> session. The portlet should use the same session to get the objects produced
> by the JSP page. But it seems the sessions are DIFFERENT for the JSP pages and
> portlet - i.e. the JSP page can read and write the object for the key "test"
> with session.getAttribute("test")/session.setAttribute("test"), but portlet
> can't get access to the object for the key "test" using
> RenderRequest.getPortletSession().getAttribute("test").
>
> What's wrong here, and how to pass the object to the portlet session from
> "outside" the portlet (as far as I understood the concepts, the
> HttpSession != PortletSession).
Well, as I found, it is not possible to share the portlet session with JSP
page :((
For now we solved this problem using the "crunch" - the shared session object
is stored in the file (serialized HashMap). At least this works.
