jboss portal server is not opening

[shambhu]

after downloading the jboss portal bundle , i unzip that in separate folder.but when i go to bin and click on run.bat .the black screen comes for a a second and then it vanishes.plz.tell me the reason.

[peterj]

Do this. Open a command prompt, cd to the bin directory, and then run run.bat. Post the output.

What JVM are you using? In the command prompt, you can enter "java -version" to find out. Post that output also.