PortletSession: How to Manage Portal User State Programatically in doView

Managing State with the PortletSession

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If the user is going to be good enough to provide information to us through html forms and http headers, the least we could do is keep track of that information, if only for the duration of the user?s visit to our site.
To provide a stateful experience for portal users, portlet developers rely upon the services of the PortletSession, which, by the way, is remarkably similar to the HttpSession object from the Servlet API.
The PortletSession is easy to use, and helps maintain a stateful experience for the user, overcoming the stateless nature of the HTTP protocol.
This tutorial takes a look at how to use the PortletSession to manage

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PortletSession session = request.getPortletSession();

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This tutorial uses IRAD/RSA, but deployment can go to any JSR168 standards compliant portal application server, including WebSphere, JetSpeed, Pluto, BEA, OpenPortal, LifeRay, Oracle, Sun, IBM, apache and more!

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