Hi, new to working with the portlet mvc framework and I have a question.

I'm building a Portlet app using the portlet web mvc framework. In a controller (an extension of SimpleFormController), I would like to access an attribute that got stored the current HttpSession. Previously using JSF I was able to access attributes like that by getting the FacesContext (FacesCOntext.getCurrentInstance()) and then working up through it's external context.

Is there a comparable way to do this from within a SimpleFormController?

Thanks in advance.