Hi,

I am working with JSR168 portlets and have a requirement to store an Object 
that portlets in different WAR files can access. I've been searching for a w
ay to get a handle on a Portal wide HttpSession (is there such a thing?) in 
my portlets but can't do it

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Portlet services might do the job.

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Hi!
How is this going?

Portlet Services might be one way.

If you don't have the requirement to support clustering or if you in a clust
er always keep to one node you might use distributed map in WAS (WAS only-st
uff -warning) and store objects in it using the session id as key. At least 
for IBM portlets the portle
t session is the same as the httpsession id thus this is the key that you wo
uld need to store in the map.

Another way could be to use a static class and have a map in it but then you
 would need to change classloader policy to encure that one instance. This c
ould work if you can pack the different WARs in one EAR and have that EAR de
ployed with parent first se
t as classloading and the utility class in the EAR so that all WAS uses the 
same classloader to load that class with the map. Are you following me?

I thought that you could get a handle to the httpsession in JSR168 portlets?
 Or is that only in the same WAR as you described?

Regards
Karin

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