I am using Jboss portal 2.6.8. I tried the code below, but I still get null value when attempting to read "attr1". I set "attr1", an HttpSession attribute, in the doFilter() of my filter class. I believe that this is set before the request gets to the portal servlet. I'm not to JB portal, but from what I am reading, there might not be a way to read this attribute from my portlet. Here is a similar post with no response from '05: http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4122211#... Thoughts? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4201943#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...