The dispose window request is now sent by submitting the view associated form. The request is marked with 'ice.submit.type='ice.dispose.view' parameter instead of having a special URL. This way the URL should be properly encoded in portal environment. Also, ice.setupBridge function was introduced to reduce the verbosity of the rendered code and allow additional setup code to be executed during bridge setup (such as wiring the callback responsible for submitting the dispose window request with onBeforeUnload function).

Next step in solving the disposal of windows in portal environment is to make sure that all the participating applications within a window are using the same windowID. This way the application receiving the dispose window notification will use the same windowID to notify the rest of participating applications about the window disposal.

Changed code to use AJAX synchronous post for sending the dipose window request to make sure the dispose window request arrives to the server before the page load request. The request made uses the URL found in the view associated form 'action' attribute. jsf.ajax.request makes only AJAX asynchronous posts which is not good enough for dispose window request.

The fix for this (a synchronous Ajax request) has been applied for Beta 2 but we are leaving this case open so that we can re-examine the design before the final 2.0 release.

The dispose-window request is now portal friendly, so I'm marking this as fixed. ICE-6088 was open for the synchronous Ajax request problem.