don't know with the portlet container, but it looks like a problem that is with the regular portal. it seems that the commandLink and commandButton are not working fine. look a these jira and related things : http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/PBR-19 http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/PBR-20 and forum post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=132688 **************************** anonymous wrote : then the request just seems to be ignored do you have some logs in the backing bean methods, that show these methods are called ? if so, it means it is during the rendering phase that the processing is broken... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4141182#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...