I have created the jboss-portal.sar from open source jboss portal version 2.4. when i try to deploy onn jboss 4.04.GA if fails with following exception 2006-12-04 16:26:34,055 DEBUG [org.jboss.portal.portlet.container.PortletContainer] Loading portlet class org.jboss.portal.core.portlet.test.BasicPortlet 2006-12-04 16:26:34,055 DEBUG [org.jboss.portal.portlet.container.PortletContainer] Creating portlet object org.jboss.portal.core.portlet.test.BasicPortlet 2006-12-04 16:26:34,070 DEBUG [org.jboss.portal.portlet.container.PortletContainer] Created portlet object org.jboss.portal.core.portlet.test.BasicPortlet 2006-12-04 16:26:34,070 DEBUG [org.jboss.portal.portlet.container.PortletContainer] Initialized portlet object org.jboss.portal.core.portlet.test.BasicPortlet 2006-12-04 16:26:34,070 DEBUG [org.jboss.portal.core.deployment.jboss.PortletAppDeployment] Looking for the WEB-INF path of samples 2006-12-04 16:26:34,084 ERROR [org.jboss.portal.core.deployment.jboss.PortletAppDeployment] Error when creating instances org.hibernate.HibernateException: Unable to locate current JTA transaction i have create the portal-mysql-ds.xml with following entries <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <local-tx-datasource> <jndi-name>PortalDS</jndi-name> <connection-url>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/jbossportal?useServerPrepStmts=false&amp;jdbcCompliantTruncation=false</connection-url> <driver-class>org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver</driver-class> <user-name>portal</user-name> portalpassword </local-tx-datasource> the above file is copied into Jboss folder \server\default\deploy can anyone pls guide what is missiing in my environment View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3990964#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...