As Thomas suggested, please make sure you have the latest jdbc driver etc. You would still need hypersonic dabase config (hsqldb-ds.xml) because some other components of JBoss such as JMS uses this to create its tables but please make sure that you don't have PortalDS configuration in this file. Now for portal, you do need oracle-ds.xml (name can be *-ds.xml) which has PortalDS configuration. I would suggest to give it another try and start from scractch. 1. Stop the running portal sever. 2. Unzip portal or clean data tmp work folders in server/default dir. 2. Clean up the database-probably nuke portal database in oracle 3. Start it again. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4019974#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...