Portal Release 1 (1.2.2.2) with servlet portlets Error

Question

Hi,
Iam trying to get a servlet to work as portlet but I am getting the following error:
Can anybody help me with this problem.
[31/07/2003 13:29:38:484 CEST] sample/init
[31/07/2003 13:29:41:171 CEST] vertis/Response status: 500 : java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest: method setAttribute(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;)V not found
     at com.nl.vertis.pd.controller.PdController.doGet(PdController.java:56)
     at com.nl.vertis.pd.controller.PdController.doPost(PdController.java:68)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:521)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:588)
     at oracle.portal.provider.v1.http.Servlet20Renderer.renderBody(Servlet20Renderer.java:155)
     at oracle.portal.provider.v1.RenderManager.render(RenderManager.java:165)
     at oracle.portal.provider.v1.http.ServletProviderResponse.showPortlet(ServletProviderResponse.java:524)
     at oracle.portal.provider.v1.http.HttpProvider.dispatchProviderAction(HttpProvider.java:660)
     at oracle.portal.provider.v1.http.HttpProvider.service(HttpProvider.java:390)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:588)
     at org.apache.jserv.JServConnection.processRequest(JServConnection.java, Compiled Code)
     at org.apache.jserv.JServConnection.run(JServConnection.java, Compiled Code)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java, Compiled Code)Below is the provider config I use for this servlet-portlet
   <portlet class="oracle.portal.provider.v1.http.DefaultPortlet">
      <id>1</id>
      <name>LOIServletController</name>
      <title>LOI Servlet Controller</title>
      <description>LOI Servlet Controller description</description>
      <timeout>10</timeout>
      <timeoutMessage>LOI/PD controller timed out</timeoutMessage>
      <hasHelp>false</hasHelp>
      <hasAbout>false</hasAbout>
      <showDetails>false</showDetails>
      <showEdit>false</showEdit>
      <showEditDefault>false</showEditDefault>
      <acceptContentType>text/html</acceptContentType>
      <renderer class="oracle.portal.provider.v1.RenderManager">
         <appPath>&virtualRoot;</appPath>
         <appRoot>&physicalRoot;</appRoot>
         <contentType>text/html</contentType>
         <charSet>UTF-8</charSet>
         <renderContainer>true</renderContainer>
         <showPage class="oracle.portal.provider.v1.http.Servlet20Renderer">
            <servletClass>com.nl.vertis.pd.controller.PdController</servletClass>
         </showPage>
      </renderer>
      <personalizationManager class="oracle.portal.provider.v1.FilePersonalizationManager">
         <dataClass>oracle.portal.provider.v1.http.BaseCustomization</dataClass>
         <useHashing>true</useHashing>
      </personalizationManager>
   </portlet>

Answer 1

Thanx,
But how do I do that???
Ive got the following servlet that functions as a controller. How do I recode it to work with jserv and pdk V2/1 or can u point me to some portal/servlet related examples?
And then especially the get/setAttribute and dispatch functions.
package com.nl.vertis.pd.controller;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.Vector;
import oracle.portal.provider.v1.*;
import oracle.portal.provider.v1.http.*;
import com.nl.vertis.util.GenericConfigObject;
import com.nl.vertis.pd.data.*;
import com.nl.vertis.blueprint.model.Constants;
import com.vertis.util.log.*;
import com.vertis.util.log.handler.*;
public class PdController  extends HttpServlet implements Constants {
  private static final String CONTENT_TYPE = "text/html; charset=windows-1252";
  private String _firstAction = "Search.do";
  private Config _cnf = null;
  private AppModuleLOIImpl _app = new AppModuleLOIImpl();
  private GenericConfigObject _obj = null;
  private BasicLog _logger = null;
  public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException {
    try {
      if (config.getInitParameter("cFirstAction") != null) {
        _firstAction = config.getInitParameter("cFirstAction");
      if (_logger == null) {
        _logger = new BasicLog();
        _logger.addHandler(new FileHandler(LOG_PATH,LOG_FILENAME));
      // Even de configuratie inlezen.
      if (_cnf == null) {
        _cnf = new Config();
    } catch(Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    super.init(config);
  public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
    _logger.activate();
    _logger.info("PdController","doGet","Starting..");
    GenericConfigObject _action = getActionObject(request);
    _logger.info("PdController","doGet","the action name = "+_action.getString("action"));
     request.setAttribute("actionObject",_action);
    _logger.info("We zijn voorbij een setAttribute gekomen");
    HttpSession _session = request.getSession();
    if (_session.getAttribute("appModule") == null) {
      _session.setAttribute("appModule",_app);
    RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher(_action.getString("action"));
    dispatcher.forward(request,response);
  public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
    doGet(request,response);
  private GenericConfigObject getActionObject(HttpServletRequest request) {
    String _objnName = null;
    if (request.getParameter("path") != null) {
      _logger.info("request.getParameter(\"path\") != null");
      _objnName = (_cnf.getGlobalForward(request.getParameter("path"))).getString("name");
      _logger.info("global forward 2 action name = "+_objnName);
    } else {
      _logger.info("request.getParameter(\"path\") == null");
      _logger.info("first action name = "+_firstAction);
      _objnName = (_cnf.getGlobalForward(_firstAction)).getString("name");
      _logger.info("global forward 2 action name = "+_objnName);
    return _cnf.getAction(_objnName);
}