I took few minutes to read the second article which makes lot of sense. The clean path is to rewrite your VIew layer (or use a bridge, if your apps are JSF apps it would help a lot). The other option is web-clipping, we are looking at having something like this out of the box but the current open source implementation doesn't seem to satisfy our needs. There is a proprietary solution for web clipping (for any portlet container), I forgot the name View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4079685#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...