Need an example of Portlet to Portlet Communication

We need a very simple example of Portlet to Portlet communication in Plumtree 5.01. We need to understand the concept of passing a variable from one Portlet to another.
A good example would be clicking on a link in one Portlet and displaying a parameter from that first Portlet in the other Portlet.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Todd Bocik

There are several ways to do this. The way that I like best is using a User Setting.
1) Pick a name for your setting.
2) Enter the name of the setting in the web service configuration for the two (or more) web services that want to share the setting. Any portlet that needs to "see" the setting must have it specified its web service configuration.
3) When a user clicks on a link in one of your portlets, set the setting: IPortletResponse.SetSettingValue(SettingType.User, "settingName", "settingValue")
4) In another portlet, get the setting and display it: IPortetRequest.GetSettingValue(SettingType.User, "settingName")
The nice thing about doing it this way is that even if your portlets are set to be cached "forever," they will change whenever you change the user setting (assuming you followed step 2).
Hope this helps,
Chris Bucchere
[email protected]
Bucchere Development Group
http://www.bucchere.com| 415.516.3941

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