You have if-exists is set to keep. This setting means that if the portlet object/window has already been define to ignore the settings in the file. Either wipe out the database and start from scratch, or change if-exists to overwrite. Also, if you log in as admin and look in the admin portal, were both instances created? What about the page layout - is only one there? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4170100#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...