Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

I'm in the process of converting a regular web application to a portlet. I expected some issues allong the way, but access variables was not one of them. I am posting her because I can see the object in the sessionScope. It just doesn't seem to have a name I can reference.

public Object getKey(PortletRequest request)
{
request.getPortletSession().setAttribute("KEY", object);
}

I have a debug.jsp that list session varibles done like so:

<tr>
<th colspan="2" style="background:aqua"><b>session</b></th>
</tr>
<c:forEach items="${sessionScope}" var="itm">
<tr>
<td><c:out value="${itm.key}"/></td>
<td><c:out value="${itm.value}"/></td>
</tr>
</c:forEach>

Which prints out this: (I've removed some output....)
session
com.liferay.util.servlet.SessionParameters gnu.trove.THashMap@b867500b
COMPANY_ID liferay.com
PORTLET_RENDER_PARAMETERS gnu.trove.THashMap@1a0725a3
LAST_PATH com.liferay.util.ObjectValuePair@fd8b9
javax.portlet.p.portletname-web-1.0.0_WAR_dispatch_portlet?KEY com.liferay.portletname.admin.util.Object@1967db7
IMAGE_PATH /image
USER_ID liferay.com.1
USER_PASSWORD ****
CTX_PATH /c
SHARED_SESSION_ID YEM3OO9KF87J
CACHE_PORTLET_RESPONSES gnu.trove.THashMap@0

So far so good, I can see the object I want in the session, but how do I reference it? The object I want is this one:
javax.portlet.p.portletname-web-1.0.0_WAR_dispatch_portlet?KEY com.liferay.portletname.admin.util.Object@1967db7


Any help would be much appriciated.