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 > > > > > > >