thanks, that's what i need. i can do that with the management portlet. but, i need to do it programmaticaly in the portlet. only admin users access to mode edit of this portlet and had to change preferences. i need to acces to the injected service : <service-name>InstanceContainer</service-name> <service-class>org.jboss.portal.core.model.instance.InstanceContainer</service-class> <service-ref>:container=Instance</service-ref> how can i get the InstanceContainer object ? i tried with a lookup but without succes thanks very much regards View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4041006#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...