Peter, Thanks for the response. After observing the deploy folder i have the following questions: how does the url: http://localhost:8080/portal/portal/default/helloworld maps to the deployed war file in "C:\jboss-4.0.4-Portal2.2.1SP1-EJB3\jboss-4.0.4.GA\server\default\deploy" I mean this is the folder where are the war files are placed. until now i have tried portlets, by adding pages to default JBoss Portal. But i am not very clear how to create my own portal and add pages to it In short when i say http://localhost:8080/portal/mycompanyportal/companydefault -> should show my company portal , not the jboss default one. Should i do the following ? 1.Create a mycompany-portal.sar file. this sar file in-turn contains conf lib war conf -> contains data, hibernate, themes ..etc lib -> contains all the library files war -> contains web-inf , Meta-inf files. (but i am not very clear here). since all the example portlets, i tried until now have class-files ( organized via class folders, org.jboss.portal.hello.helloworld.class) inside the war, but in the C:jboss-4.0.4.GA\server\default\deploy\jboss-portal.sar\portal-samples.war does not have any classes am i missing some thing?. Can you please throw some light. thanks for all the help View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3972429#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...