RE: [Springframework-developer] Portlets and spring tag library

[Nick L. <nl...@es...>]

> 
> Nick Lothian wrote:
> > Should I be able to use the spring tag library within a Portlet?
> 
> It should, but as you have found out it does not at the moment.
> 
> The intent is to have all the WebMVC View technology available in 
> PortletMVC.  However, much of the View technology is dependent on 
> specifics of the Servlet API.  To get around this we wrote a "bridge" 
> Servlet which PortletMVC delegates to for rendereing.  This 
> works ok for 
> simple JSTL views and allows one to use the Portlet taglib.
> 
> The problem now is that <spring:bind ...> is dependendant upon 
> WebApplicationContext...which is not available in PortletMVC, 
> so we'll 
> have to figure out a way to also "bridge" the taglib.  
> Essentially if we 
> are running in PortletMVC we need the tablibs to look for 
> PortletApplicationContext instead of WebApplicationContext or come up 
> with an abstraction for both and refactor the tablib.
> 
> later.
> Bill
> 
> 

Why can't PortletApplicationContext inherit from WebApplicationContext?

Logically it would make sense - the portlet specification leaverages the
servlet spec, even if there are no interfaces shared between the
specifications.

Nick