I have been trying to get access to the CMSservices object in my portlet application.

I am able to grab the CMSService context attribute but the service is always null.

CMSService = (CMS)getPortletContext().getAttribute("CMS");

if(CMSService == null)
throw new PortletException("Cannot start CMS portlet due to service unavailability");

This does not work in my portlet, does anyone have any info on getting a handle on the service.