I tried the following: Installed JBoss AS 4.0.5 with ejb3 profile using the JEMS installer 1.2.0.GA: http://labs.jboss.com/jemsinstaller/downloads Moved jboss-portal.sar, portal-cms.sar, portal-samples.sar in the deply directory with the datasource descriptor. The dashboard is working correctly, everything i tried was working (Except hot deployment of the CMS). The testsuite is not runned against this particular configuration though. Please, let me know what you did differently. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4045697#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...