You should not be storing any data in fields in the portlet class (instances of that class are created as needed, and possibly pooled, by the portlet container), you should be storing the data you are gathering into the preferences instead. Your doView method can then access the data from the preferences. Preferences have the added benefit that they are persistent so if the portal is restarted they are still there. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4030696#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...