If you used jpfs start over, rip your method bodies out, use Spring Portlets or Seam (haven't tried it). WL Portal 8.1 is a complete ex-Microsoft developer hack. If you used jsr-168 portlets and Spring you will still have to clean up the jsps a lot and if you used the idiotic security stuff you should encapsulate it with an interface (we did) and create a JACC/JAAS based implementation for JBoss as a bridge. Warning JBoss Portal's navigation sucks big time. Don't expect much from the *object.xml, build your own, theirs is a complete Model 1 hack with lots of server side java producing html and other oddities. Really don't understand what they were thinking of. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4034819#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...