>
> Oops ... my bad. ExternalContext defines the following method:
>
> public Object getSession(boolean create);
>
> recognized by the EL processing. I was assuming ExternalContext also had a
> getSession() that takes no arguments, like it does for request, response,
> and context.
Since both, Portlet and Servlet environment, provide a getSession()
method, which takes no argument (to be clear, in Portlet world it's
called getPortletSession())
That's too bad ... otherwise it would have been possible to use
#{facesContext.externalContext.request.session}
transparently :-).
Craig

