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[14:40:01 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> 
[14:45:36 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> blarg
[14:45:50 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> so it appears that tomcat calls response.getWriter().close()
[14:45:58 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> after doing a forward
[14:46:08 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> which is how resources are served
[14:46:32 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> the problem is if the portlet does a setUseCachedContent(true) that call commits the response ...