It seems to me that this is more of a hibernate problem than a pluto problem. really, getting hibernate to work within a portlet should be no different than doing it within a webapp.
Perhaps a stack trace and/or code snippet would help us get more specific. David On 12/3/05, Andreas Buechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > in my portlet I'm trying to access the db over hibernate. Unfortunately > this doesn't seem to be very reliable (at least how I configured it...). > After googeling a little I found out that the "Hibernate Reference > Documentation v3.0.5" isn't quite up to date and that you don't have to > use Tomcat's JNDI-bound JDBC connections anymore [2]. > > My problem is now that it still doesn't work in a reliable way. The > symptoms are that if I access the portlet for the first time the db > query is (mostly) successful. After that I get NullPointerExceptions. To > make sure it's not my hibernate code, I tried the same query in > standalone application (without Tomcat/Pluto). It worked without any > problems. > > Does anybody have a clue what's going wrong here? How did you get > hibernate to work reliable within your portlet? Any hints or suggestions > are highly appreciated! > > > [1] http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/reference/en/html/quickstart.html > [2] http://www.hibernate.org/114.html > > Regards, > Andi > >
