Setting Portlet Preference in Backing File for Clipper Portlet

Hi All,
I have a clipper portlet, and I am setting the preferences(for form based authentication & passing application data dynamically) in the backing file which is then associated to the Clipper portlet. I looked up at the clipper constants that are available; and the example they have given is
portlet.setPreference(LOGIN_FORM_EXTRA_PARAMS, "name1=value2&name3=value4")
My question is what is this "portlet"?? is it an instance?? then whose instance/object it is?? how am I suppose to declare it in my Backing File??
Any input on this would be appreciated.
Thanks,
G

Hi,
I'm guessing here... but I think that the example is referring to a PortletPreferences object, which can be obtained through a PortletBackingContext with the getPortletPreferences() method. To obtain a PortletBackingContext you just use the static method PortletBackingContext.getPortletBackingContext() and pass in the request in the backing file. See also: Using the Preferences API to Access or Modify Preferences
Hope this helps,
Petri

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