Hi, I tried to create an instance of a remote portlet through xml and not through management portlet interface. I created a *-instances.xml file where i defined the instance as <instance-id>MyRemotePortletInstance</instance-id> <portlet-ref>{producer-id}.{remoteappname}.{portletname}</portlet-ref> when I deploy this into jboss portal, the portal container is trying to lookup the portlet after appending the {localappname} to the portlet-ref. So it is trying to lookup something like {localappname}.{producer-id}.{remoteappname}.{portletname} and giving out an error that the portlet is not found. Is there a way to create instances of a remote portlet through xml descriptors? --Bhupesh View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4012844#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...