how to access default portalcontext object in a separate servlet accessed from ajax call

I am making an ajax call to a servlet from a secondary page. I need to access the default portalcontext object ( com.vignette.portal.website.enduser.PortalContext) from within the servlet accessed from an ajax call made from the secondary page. The portalcontext object is available in secondary page, need to avail the same object from inside the servlet to read User object data, etc.

Any idea

thanks

Jasob

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Al_Daniel

Quoted Jasobanta Panigrahi (jpanigrahi@worldbank.org) on 2011/08/11 15:15:

Any idea

thanks

Jasob

Hello Jasob,

You cannot access PortalContext (or any Portal API) directly unless the servlet is installed and mapped under the Portal application (defined in WEB-INF/web.xml).

What User object data are you trying to retrieve? Perhaps you can extract the raw data from the User object in the secondary page and place it in a Map, then pass that to the servlet as a request attribute.

Regards

Alex

Jasobanta_Panigrahi

Alex - thanks for providing some clue...

the servlet is configured in web.xml in the following way...

<servlet>
<servlet-name>OldPasswordVerifyServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.dpmtech.collab.OldPasswordValidate</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>OldPasswordVerifyServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/oldpassword_verify/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Am I missing on any additional steps in web.xml!

I want to pass the User object..let me try passing request attribute using Map object as you have mentioned.

Thanks

Jasob