Hugo Martinez [http://community.jboss.org/people/maikronian] created the discussion "The Session that I set in the valve is the same or can be shared with the portletSession with ApplicationScope?" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/578088#578088 -------------------------------------------------------------- The problem that I have is that I want  to display some content.in the header layouts of my portal page.according the usergroup. This is the following snippet:     public void invoke(Request request, Response response) throws IOException, ServletException {         if (productCodes != null) {                if(authenticateProducts(request, response, productCodes)) {                   String locationId = authHelper.obtainAuthorizedLocationId(request, productCodes); *getUserPreferences(Request request, String locationId)*                }           }     }      public Map<String, Object> getUserPreferences(Request request, String locationId) {         Session session = request.getSessionInternal(true);          Map<String, Object> preferences = (Map<String, Object>)  session.getSession().getAttribute(USER_GROUP_PREFERENCES);         if (preferences == null || preferences.isEmpty()) {             preferences = retrieveUserGroupPreferences(locationId);             session.getSession().setAttribute(USER_GROUP_PREFERENCES, preferences);         }         return preferences;     } I tried to get the preferences from the map in a portlet as follows:      Map<String, Object> preferences = (Map<String, Object>) portletSession.getAttribute(USER_GROUP_PREFERENCES,                 PortletSession.APPLICATION_SCOPE); But I got preferences = null I  also tried a ServletFitler and I CAN share the HTTPSession with the  PortletSession,  but it seems that the layout is being executed before  the filter (which is very strange to me), so I found that the valve is  executed before anything but now that I can successfully invoke the  valve before the layout.jsp, I cannot access the attribute from the  portletsession, do you guys have any idea, I'm stuck! -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/578088#578088] Start a new discussion in JBoss Portal at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]