Portlets are not meant to redirect to external resources... For example, if the resource contains links, what would happen? Links have to be under the control of the portal server for it to be able to do its work. There are ways to achieve some kind of result, though, but they all have issues: use an iframe in your portlet markup, use a web clipping framework... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4099846#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...