I think it could be depend on settings on your portlet-instances.xml file. If you have declared "if-exists" tag for this portlet in your portlet-instances.xml in this way: | <if-exists>overwrite</if-exists> | <instance> | <instance-id>YourPortletInstance</instance-id> | <portlet-ref>yourApp.yourPortlet</portlet-ref> | </instance> | You are telling the container to destroy any existing object and create a new one. If would you like the container retains any existing copy and creates a new instance, then you must set "keep" as value of this tag, in this way: | <if-exists>keep</if-exists> | <instance> | <instance-id>YourPortletInstance</instance-id> | <portlet-ref>yourApp.yourPortlet</portlet-ref> | </instance> | Try this ;) Hope this helps View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4214585#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...