Thanks Scott, that two-threads thing might indeed be a problem.
And so might the filters.

Is there some good documentation on the difference between portlets and 
"normal" jsf available?

Markus, which version of Orchestra are you using? 1.0 or a snapshot?

Regards,
Simon

---- Scott O'Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> Hey Marcus,
> 
> I haven't had a chance to check out the orchestra code, but I noticed 
> this was in a call to getInstance.  It's possible that if the Orchestra 
> code is trying to pull the conversion Manager from the thread local that 
> this is the problem.
> 
> In a portal environment, Faces runs in a two-phased request.  That is 
> there is an action followed by a render.  There is no guarantee that the 
> ActionRequest and the RenderRequest will run on the same thread.  This 
> means that if the conversion manager was set up on the Render Thread it 
> may not be available on the action thread.
> 
> The other thing that might cause this is if orchestra uses a filter.  
> Filters do not get run in a portal environment until way late in the 
> lifecycle and, only then, if they are set to run in an include.
> 
> I hope this helps you and some of the other Orchestra people figure out 
> your issue.
> 
> Scott
> 
> markus.g wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > currently we're prototyping a portlet application (liferay 4.33)  with
> > orchestra , JPA (Hibernate) and myFaces 1.1.5. In a pure servlet container
> > (tomcat 5.5)  everything works fine. In the portlet environment, the
> > conversation manager throws a NullPointerException. 
> >
> > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
> >     at
> > org.apache.myfaces.orchestra.conversation.ConversationManager.getInstance(ConversationManager.java:90)
> >     at
> > org.apache.myfaces.orchestra.conversation.ConversationManager.getInstance(ConversationManager.java:76)
> >     at
> > org.apache.myfaces.orchestra.conversation.spring.AbstractSpringOrchestraScope.getBean(AbstractSpringOrchestraScope.java:125)
> >     at
> > org.apache.myfaces.orchestra.conversation.spring.AbstractSpringOrchestraScope.get(AbstractSpringOrchestraScope.java:117)
> >     at
> > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:285)
> >     at
> > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:160)
> >     at
> > org.springframework.aop.target.SimpleBeanTargetSource.getTarget(SimpleBeanTargetSource.java:33)
> >     at
> > org.springframework.aop.framework.Cglib2AopProxy$DynamicAdvisedInterceptor.getTarget(Cglib2AopProxy.java:661)
> >     at
> > org.springframework.aop.framework.Cglib2AopProxy$DynamicAdvisedInterceptor.intercept(Cglib2AopProxy.java:611)
> >     at
> > de.seat.mitarbeiterinfo.view.mitarbeiterlist$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$4f90561b.getMitarbeiterListModel(<generated>)
> >     ... 125 more
> >
> > Has anybody a solution for this problem?
> >
> > Is it actually possible to run orchestra in a portlet environment?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Markus
> >
> >
> >   
> 

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