Thanks for everyone reply, it was very helpful. Just to summarize what the issue(s) were: - Following the instructions from the JBoss Portal Reference guide and just doing a "build deploy" results in an incomplete jboss-portal.sar. Just as poster "roth" mentioned, I was missing key sar files (e.g. portal-admin.sar, portal-cms.sar, etc.). - Just poster "prabhat" mentioned, the solution is to do a ant -f distrib.xml -Dno-doc=true package-normal. *Note: I found a an error in the distrib.xml file which I will submit at a later time. The error is it was trying to copy portal-wsrp-exploded.sar which does not exist as part of the portal source downloaded. I changed the build file to copy portal-wsrp.sar instead. Regards View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4093802#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...