After JSR-168 processAction there is no re-Render?

Question

In the Edit/Config mode of my JSR-168 portlet I want to have a rather complex form. It's a table that the user would be able to edit, add, and remove rows from. I have a form that submits to the actionURL, and sucessfully calls the processAction method of the portlet. Each action like add, remove, or edit submits the form to this method. I want to save the change and refresh the screen for further changes.
The problem is that the screen won't refresh after the action call. The edit/config window just closes on its own. Is there a way to modify this behavior so that the screen refreshes instead and only closes when I tell it the user is done?
Thanks,
Tim

Answer 1

I have since re-written the code based on the fact that it doesn't work the way I expected. I basically have:
public class ABSSalesSearchBase extends GenericPortlet {
protected void doDispatch(RenderRequest request,
RenderResponse response) throws PortletException,
IOException {
System.out.println("ABSSalesSearchBase doDispatch 1");
processActionWorkaround(request, response);
protected void processActionWorkaround(RenderRequest request,
RenderResponse response) throws PortletException,
IOException {
System.out.println("ABSSalesSearchBase processActionWorkaround 1");
public void processAction(ActionRequest request, ActionResponse response)
throws PortletException, IOException {
System.out.println("ABSSalesSearchBase processAction - Done");
I put the call to processActionWorkaround() inside doDispatch so that I could process the action and then continue to render the portlet.
After a normal call to processAction(), the doDispatch() is not called, and the portal closes the popup preferences window. So I'm now only using processAction when the user clicks on a Done button.
It would make more sense for the portal to keep the preferences window open until I changed the portlet mode back from Edit to View, signaling that the edits were done, but it seems the container assumes we are done after any processAction.