It was. The problem was that I was editing the jboss-service.xml for the portal app, instead of creating one for my own app. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4136755#4136755 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4136755