My general rule of thumb is that once a portlet has been deployed, after that I never modify the configuration files to change the deployment - instead I use the admin portal to do that. Alternately, you can wipe the database and thereby redeploy the porltlet. For example, during development, every time I change the config files, I stop the app server, re-create the portal database and restart the app server. Then the portal database is initialized from the updated config files. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4170419#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...