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[11:03:33 CDT(-0500)] <athena> it's passing in a key, at which point the servlet either pulls somethign from cache or builds a new one
[11:04:08 CDT(-0500)] <athena> so caching some stuff in the portal's session, but just to save redoing it, and not using the portlet session
[11:04:40 CDT(-0500)] <b-rock> yeah so the evaluator object is the GatewayUserContext object being set in the portlet from what I can tell.