[Laszlo-user] Laszlo in Portlets: JavaRPC vs post to jsp/servlet

[Alexander Wallace]

Hi All!

I'm experimenting with using OpenLaszlo in Portlets...

As far as I know OpenLaszlo doesn't know anything about portlets, so  
from the client app perspective, it is the same as in any webapp...  
Correct ?

I have a portlet which embeds an lzx file to present it in the view  
of my portlet. I think this will work just fine.

I am trying to decide what to use in the middle of the portal and  
OpenLaszlo app to communicate back an forth, stuff  related to  
permissions and data in general. Should I use JavaRPC, trying to  
simulate say, JSF managed beans? Should i use jsp/servlets instead?

Some questions arise if i use JavaRPC:

a) will session created objects be in the portlet session ?
b) There are some portal related objects which one can usually get  
from the request object, in a portlet, this is the PortletRequest  
object, these portlet objects provide information about the logged in  
user, the layout (page) being viewed, and the portlet in which the  
request is made... Will there be any chance of the objects  
instantiated via JavaRPC of getting the request object via which it  
is being called?

I think that if I use JSPs/Servlets i may be able to get the portlet  
objects easier, but the JavaRPC solution seems more elegant...

Any advise performance wise? Any other comments?

Thanks a lot in advance for all the info you can provide!