Newbie question.

I need to generate a servlet url from my portlet and that servlet will rende
r a remote image (when fired by browser with the img tag) and therfore will 
require access to application context that the original portlet was running 
under (I guess I can do thi
s as within all the portal server it is the servlet engine running). I tried
 generating a URL from within a portlet (war) but was generating a big hash 
kind of base url and my serlet was not firing.

Therfore I am trying to deploy this war as an ear file (ear file has the war
 file within it). Then I can give it a context url and maybe that will work 
and I can maybe get a handle to the application context.

The problem is that when I deploy this ear file in WAS I do not see it in We
bsphere_Portal server and therfore cannot install & run my portlet. There is
 no way to install a ear on the portal server instance. I am using WebSphere
 portal server 6.0.1.

Can anyone tell me how would I install the ear so that portal server can see
 the war file?

Things are little fuzzy at the moment.

Thanks in advance.

Kishan

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