Did not touch the deployment order (would not even know how to change that ;-)) It's a Seam / MyFaces application. In the web.xml the initialization for Seam and MyFaces is done. Nothing special in the portlet.xml and portlet-instances.xml. The application does have a dependency on some EJB components so I defined the following in jboss-web.xml: <jboss-web> | <context-root>myapp</context-root> | <depends> | jboss.j2ee:service=EARDeployment,url='myapp-ear-1.0-SNAPSHOT.ear' | </depends> | </jboss-web> I have created a custom login portlet. For that reason my jboss-portlet.xml looks like this: <portlet-app> | <portlet> | <portlet-name>MyAppPortlet</portlet-name> | </portlet> | | <portlet> | <portlet-name>AdditionalNavigationPortlet</portlet-name> | <transaction> | <trans-attribute>Required</trans-attribute> | </transaction> | </portlet> | | <portlet> | <portlet-name>UserHeaderPortlet</portlet-name> | <transaction> | <trans-attribute>Required</trans-attribute> | </transaction> | </portlet> | | <service> | <service-name>UserModule</service-name> | <service-class> | org.jboss.portal.identity.UserModule | </service-class> | <service-ref>:service=Module,type=User</service-ref> | </service> | <service> | <service-name>PortalObjectContainer</service-name> | <service-class> | org.jboss.portal.core.model.portal.PortalObjectContainer | </service-class> | <service-ref>:container=PortalObject</service-ref> | </service> | <service> | <service-name>InstanceContainer</service-name> | <service-class> | org.jboss.portal.core.model.instance.InstanceContainer | </service-class> | <service-ref>:container=Instance</service-ref> | </service> | <service> | <service-name>PortalAuthorizationManagerFactory</service-name> | <service-class> | org.jboss.portal.security.spi.auth.PortalAuthorizationManagerFactory | </service-class> | <service-ref> | :service=PortalAuthorizationManagerFactory | </service-ref> | </service> | </portlet-app> That's about all I can think of. Any clues? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4028750#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...