actually you are doing fine, it's because there are some modules you have not deployed yet which are : core-samples (containing JSPPortlet) core-admin core-management it is due to the extreme modularity of portal which allows us to break down the core and core-* components in order to increase our productivity by redeploying only the necessary part. We have project files for intellij idea and eclipse, but we use the build.xml to build and deploy because of the non trivial nature of the build. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4043486#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...