Programatically load URL inside a portlet

Question

Hi Super Solver(s) of Problems,
Is there a way to programatically load a given URL inside a portlet?
For example, if I have Portlet A and Porlet B, and I want to make a B load up,
say, "http://www.google.com", when I click a button in A, how would I go about
doing that (preferably without using a Webflow that can see both A and B)?
Hanson

Answer 1

Hanson,
Please post the contents of the page that is not rendering correctly.
Thanks!
Sincerely,
Daniel Selman
"Hanson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Hi again,
I've written a page that displays what my servlet ought to without usingany session
data, and parts of that page still won't render inside the portlet (thoughin
its own browser window, it displays fine).
I guess my question then becomes: what can/can't you render with the<ws:uriContent>
tag?
Hanson
"Daniel Selman" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hanson,
It sounds like a problem with your Servlet. If it requires certain
session
variables, how do you intend to be able to hit it with a brand new
Session?
What happens when you hit your Servlet directly with a web-browser?
Sincerely,
Daniel Selman
"Hanson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Hi Prady,
Thanks for all your input! If I want to direct my page to somethinglike
Yahoo
or Google, the method you showed me works. However, the URL I'm
getting
the portlet
to load points to a servlet, and for some reason, that servlet can'tget
the session
variables it needs to render its contents (retrievals return null whenother portlets
in the session can read them fine). Is there any way around that
problem?
>>>
>>>
Hanson
"Prady" <[email protected]> wrote:
Try this:
1. Go to developer.bea.com and download/install the web services
portlet
wizard. This will modify your EBCC to include the web service wizard
tool.
2. Using the URI tool of that wizard (from EBCC), create yourPortlet-B
for
a default URL such as http://www.google.com. The URI tool has couple
of
tags that help us load the URI content within a portlet.
3. Write your Portlet-A with a simple form. Eg.
<FORM>
MyURL:<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=text NAME=myURL SIZE=30>
<INPUT TYPE=submit NAME=submit VALUE=go>
</FORM>
4. In Portlet-B (generated by the URI tool), there is a "defaultURL"
variable that will have the default URL that you provided while
creating the portlet-B (in our example from step 2. it will be
http://www.google.com). Change it to get the "myURL"
variable from the request object. Eg.
String myURL = request.getParameter("myURL");
5. Test.
6. you can modify portlet-B and portlet-A to use webflow to
pass information via pipeline session.
Let me know if this works.