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[11:54:14 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> you have to do "ant deployPortletApp -DportletApp=/path/to/yourProject.war"
[11:54:23 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> you can't just drop in the WAR file
[11:54:36 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> the portlet spec requires that portals do some portal specific modifications to the web.xml file