I believe you faced https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE-5402 "Create new Portlet wizard - portlet source not generated" View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4269779#4269779 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4269779