Thank you very much - that nearly explains everything. I guess the reason I was a bit confused is I am already using a portlet-instances.xml file - just coded a bit differently. I just redid both the portlet-instances.xml and the -object.xml and redeployed without incident. One question that the document does not make clear: I am not coding any page or window specific descriptors in my -object.xml file - I use the admin area to put portlets on specific pages instead. So that means that I now have nothing real in my -object.xml, just empty deployments and deploment tags. It ran without problems, but is this correct practice? Thanks again. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3963036#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...