I apologize if anyone has already asked this question, but I searched the board and didn't see it. Also, I tried the user forum first, but figured maybe this was more appropriate.
JSR 168 has the following line in it (Section PLT.16.3): "Servlets and JSPs included from portlets should not use the servlet RequestDispatcher forward method as its behavior may be non-deterministic." I am no expert on Struts, although I have used it quite a bit. It seems that if I wanted to wrap my Struts app in a Portlet and access various actions through the PortletRequestDispatcher (the most logical approach), I would run afoul of this warning. Lacking an implementation to test my hypothesis (*$&# IBM legal department), I am unsure whether this actually fails or not. My gut instinct is that it probably wouldn't, but that it may not be reliable across implementations of servlet and portlet containers. I wanted to get some thoughts from the Struts community about this possible issue. Also, I wanted to know what the impact would be of using RequestDispatcher's include method instead? Or at least providing the facility to portlet developers? I apologize if I have wrongly assumed anything in my question. This is my best estimate based on what I have read. Thanks, Clay Richardson W. Clay Richardson Adjunct Professor of Computer Science Northern Virginia Graduate Center Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University "Oh, and how is "education" supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and I forgot how to drive?" - Homer J. Simpson
