Thanks Peter. You write "you should be able to reference existing portlets ...", well, I tried this already, but all I get is Failed to create instance WfDemoPortalIntroInstance of portlet /de.danet.an.jbportal.war.local.portal.CMSPortlet because portlet /de.danet.an.jbportal.war.local.portal.CMSPortlet is not available so the portal effectively prepends the name of the WAR with the portal definition (de.danet.an.jbportal.war) to the full portlet name. It does not recognize this as a "fully qualified" (not-to-be-modified) portlet name. Maybe I'll head for the programmatic approach described in the referenced thread. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4014448#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...