Portlet Information from Portal

Hello,
I'm developing a non-SAP portlet that will be consumed by the portal and was wondering what information, if any, the portlet will have access to from SAP. Basically I am wanting to know if I will be able to get any information about the user that logged into the portal.
Thanks,
Brandon

Simon,
I've been looking into how to extract the user id from the SSO Ticket. I found where I need the SAPSSOEXT stuff, but this seems to be just a patch to the SAP system. My application will be on an external java server and thus will not have access to the libraries that this patch contains. Do you know of a way for me to get the necessary libraries, such as in a .jar, so that they can be accessed on the external server? Or can the SSO Ticket only be accessed by an application on the same server?
Thank you for your assistance.
Brandon

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22.1. Apache Beehive Page Flow ....................................... 126
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24.4. CR361477 Problems with the integration of JSF portlets with Apache Beehive Page Flows.................................................................. 133
24.5. CR377945 JSF 1.2 suffers from a memory leak during iterative development .............................................................................. 134
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