anonymous wrote : so i had put the path in classpath Exactly what do you mean by this? This statement places an idea in my mind of what you might have done but I hope that what I think is nopt what you actually did. Your portlet class should be located at either WEB-INF/class/com/text/PortletDefination.class or in a JAR file located in WEB-INF/lib. You should not have to add anything to any classpath. Could you post the contents of your WAR file? (use 'jar -tf xxx.war') Also post any other config files such as web.xml and faces-config.xml. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4224790#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...