strange what you are doing not sure to have clearly understood how you "call" the portlet, but quite sure it is a wrong idea... you may isolate the feature outside the portlet : put it in some independant class, or better, in a JMX service. the portlet call this feature when it need it the login event also. this feature should not need all the portlet stuff... so could be isolated in a JMX service. hope it helps, View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4091947#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...