in JBoss Portal 2.7 you will be able to use portlet filters defined by JSR 286 to achieve that result. Meanwhile a way that may work is to use a servlet filter in your application and configure it using dispatcher tag such as: <filter-mapping> | <filter-name>MyFilter</filter-name> | <url-pattern>/jbossportlet</url-pattern> | <dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher> | </filter-mapping> I think this should work but I have not tested it. The "/jbossportlet" url pattern is the special servlet injected at runtime in the portlet application to make the portlet container dispatch in the war file containing your portlets. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4143244#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...