Re: [Springframework-developer] Portlet and JSFs

[William G. T. Jr. <wg...@ru...>]

Alef Arendsen wrote:
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> 
> To be honest I can't think of a way to get our current controller
> infrastructure to work with portlets, except for manually forwarding an
> incoming ActionRequest to a Servlet using the PortletRequestDispatcher. This
> is only allowed when executing the render method of the Portlet interface.
> Forcing users to only use the render method is not really a good thing to do
> IMHO.
> 
> Getting the applicationcontext available through a FrameworkPortlet is the
> first step I think and this is one thing that should be available in Spring
> core (it's only a couple of classes). How to go on after that is still
> unclear for me.

That sounds like a good first step...we may need a Portlet specific 
controller/handler infrastructure since many of the "normal" web app 
handler mappings don't make sense is this context.  We can start 
building some services on top of FrameworkPortlet as soon as its ready 
then contribute ideas as we go along.