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

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

> > I think that the ServletContext is supposed to be available 
> to JSP views
> > used from a Portlet. The spec says nothing about 
> restricting it, and in any
> > case, without a ServletContext JSP's are pretty useless.
> 
> Yes, of course a ServletContext is available to dispatched JSP views, 
> and data stored in either context is available to each, as 
> per the spec 
> anyway.  My point was that Portlet code is meant to deal with 
> PortletAPIs not ServletAPIs and visa versa.
> 
> However, as you pointed out that doesn't neccesily stop us 
> from having 
> PortletApplicationContext extend WebApplicationContext and be 
> available 
> where the RequestContext and the rest of the View package expect it.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Bill

I think it makes a lot of sense to do that.

In the JSP pages included in a Portlet you can make use of JSP/Servlet
features - I think Spring should do the same thing.

Nick