Stan, could it be because between the action phase and the render phase, there is another HTTP request (a redirection) ? So when you call an action you actually do *2* HTTP requests. (I don't know how you handled that). I think at some point you could tell JBoss Portal to avoid the redirection. But then you trigger the action twice on a refresh. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3984836#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...