Before the Portlet 2 specification (JSR286), the recommended method for adding AJAX functionality to a JSR168 portlet was to deploy an additional servlet to the portal server (either inside the same WAR as your portlet(s) or in a stand-alone WAR) to handle asynchronous requests. Requests to these servlets are then handled by the servlet container [...]
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I'm Andy Pemberton, a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect and web standards advocate. I work for a large, US-bank by day and scratch my entrepreneurial itch by night.