Hi,

I tried to reproduce portletbridge-examples (episode6-code) with gate-in 3.0.0.GA.

<a4j:push> partial-update across 2 portlets runs successfully.

Now I wanted to use it in in jboss-portal 2.7.2 with richfaces 3.3.3.CR1.

I 've implemented the same code-snippets as it was shown in Wesley Hales video-example.

First, directly after deploying my ear, I get the following messages in my logs ...

(This error is independent of <a4j:push> and occurs already with the bridge)

16:13:45,062 ERROR [STDERR] 20.05.2010 16:13:45 javax.portlet.faces.GenericFacesPortlet calculateBridgeClassName
INFO: Bridge class name is org.jboss.portletbridge.AjaxPortletBridge
16:13:45,062 ERROR [STDERR] 20.05.2010 16:13:45 javax.portlet.faces.GenericFacesPortlet init
INFO: The bridge does not support doHeaders method

After starting my app, <a4j:push> was evaluated and the HEAD-request tries to access the server.

During the requests the following exceptions appears in my logs ... and the server gives an 500er repsonse ...

org.jboss.portal.web.IllegalRequestException: HTTP Method HEAD not accepted
    at org.jboss.portal.web.impl.AbstractWebRequest.<init>(AbstractWebRequest.java:83)
    at org.jboss.portal.web.endpoint.EndPointRequest.<init>(EndPointRequest.java:54)
    at org.jboss.portal.server.servlet.PortalServlet.service(PortalServlet.java:211)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:230)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:182)
    at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:524)
    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:84)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:157)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:262)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:446)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

Does only GateIn support Head-Requests? How can I implement <a4j:push> in my 2.7.2 portlet server?

Thx,

Holger