enable DWR access to Portal Session data - WebSphere Portal 6.x

[Garret O'Keeffe]

Hi - I have some DWR Java methods called via js calls in our Portal JSPs.
I need to be able to access the portlet session data (but not at Application Scope) from these DWR Java methods. {This data has been set in the Spring Controllers}.

I do not wish to go to the Application Scope but within our framework (which also includes SpringMVC), some user specific data is stored in the portal session.

In the DWR methods, I can access Apllication Scoped data but If I could somehow pass the 'portal session key' used by portal through to the DWR method, perhaps I could access the portal session data? - At the moment, I only care about read access to this data.

I know the solution may be portal specific here - I am using WebSphere Portal Server 6.1 - any ideas would be appreciated
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