THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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This snippet from portlet.xml will set up the portlet with a namespace of /portletA/. This means that all requests to this portlet will get the namespace prepended when looking up the action. In addition, the _view portlet mode will map to the /view namespace, so a request for action myAction will resolve to the namespace and action /portletA/view/myAction. It also means that if no action is requested, the default action of index will be used for the request.