I see your point. The thing is that those portlets (news) have caching enabled so if you customize a portlet and change identity, you still have the previous entry for a while which is a very confusing experience. Try to edit jboss-portal.sar/portal-samples.war/WEB-INF/portlet.xml and remove the caching entry for the news portlet and see what it gives. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3960349#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...