I think your portlet events for Portlet A and B are not bound to the listener. The reason you are getting messages from the doView in portlet B is because. it is probably added on the same page as portlet A. So as soon as you submit portlet A, the entire page is rendered again and hence calling the doView in portletB. Please see one of my previous posts regarding how you can login as admin and check what listeners are bound to your portlet windows. Also you are suppose to deploy the .sar file View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4162418#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...