Spring and JSR 168 Portlet

Question

I have an application which uses Spring beans and JSR 168 based portlet. I want to know how can i get access to the my spring beans in the portlet controller. I am trying to do the following
public WebApplicationContext getSpringContext(PortletRequest request) {
HttpServletRequest servletRequest = (HttpServletRequest)request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.request");
WebApplicationContext appContext = WebApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(servletRequest
                    .getSession().getServletContext());
return appContext;
Actually a NPE happens @ "servletRequest.getSession()"
The spring beans are initialized during deployment using the spring contextListener
This code works in other J2EE container which have JSR 168 support, like BEA, JBOSS
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

OMG!
Today, I wanted to build a really simple portlet with spring, and deploy it on oc4j / iAS10gR2 - since it hoped it will ease development in the future.
Your post, doesn't motivate so much - but let's hope I've a bit more luck getting it running :)
-> Have you looked at the spring-framework 2.0.3 release demos? In the 2.0.3 release a new demo: petportal is included - maybe this helps :)