Determine current URI from portlet?

[m0m0]

Hello.

I'm trying to determine which page a portal user is currently on by using the following jsp statements:

<%
String currentPage = request.getRequestURI();

if (currentPage.indexOf("News") == -1) {
 ... do some stuff
} else {
 ... do some other stuff
}
%>

Unfortunately, getRequestURI() returns the page that the portlet is consuming, in this case, /jsp/news.jsp.

Is there a way that I can determine what the current page is? For the news page, it should be http://host/portal/blah/blah/News. The reason I need this is because I want to reuse my news portlet on multiple pages and display certain information depending on which page the portlet is on.

Thanks in advance.

[mholzner]

you can solve this with either
* window properties, or
* portlet preferences

All it requires you to do is define a new window for each portlet assignment on each page (i.e. for the same portlet on 3 pages, you'll need 3 windows so that you can assign different preferences/window properties).

[m0m0]

Thanks for the reponse.

Can I query the window-name property from JSP? If so, could you provide a quick sample? I'll do some digging on how to do this myself, but I'm fairly new to working with JBoss and portlets for that matter. Thanks again.