To answer your question, yes, I login before I go into edit mode.

I've tried replacing edit.jsp with view.jsp to show up, and I had no luck. I also tried replacing the call to show edit.jsp with this:

 response.setContentType("text/html");
 PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter();
 writer.write("Edit Mode!");
 writer.close();

throw new RuntimeException("Edit Exception");

Ok, here's my portlet.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<portlet-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd"
 version="1.0">
 <portlet>
 <portlet-name>EmmiPortlet</portlet-name>
 <portlet-class>com.rightfield.testing.portlet.EmmiPortlet</portlet-class>
 <supports>
 <mime-type>text/html</mime-type>
 <portlet-mode>VIEW</portlet-mode>
 <portlet-mode>EDIT</portlet-mode>
 </supports>
 <portlet-info>
 <title>Emmi Portlet</title>
 </portlet-info>
 </portlet>
</portlet-app>

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;

import javax.portlet.ActionRequest;
import javax.portlet.ActionResponse;
import javax.portlet.GenericPortlet;
import javax.portlet.PortletException;
import javax.portlet.PortletRequestDispatcher;
import javax.portlet.PortletSecurityException;
import javax.portlet.RenderRequest;
import javax.portlet.RenderResponse;


import com.rightfield.common.EmmiDTO;
import com.rightfield.emmimgr.dao.EmmiMgrDAOFactory;
import com.rightfield.emmimgr.dao.ReadOnlyEmmiMgrDAO;

public class EmmiPortlet extends GenericPortlet {



 @Override
 protected void doEdit(RenderRequest request, RenderResponse response)
 throws PortletException, IOException {
 response.setContentType("text/html");
 PortletRequestDispatcher prd = getPortletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/jsp/edit.jsp");
 prd.include(request, response);
 }

 @Override
 protected void doView(RenderRequest request, RenderResponse response)
 throws PortletException, PortletSecurityException, IOException {
 response.setContentType("text/html");
 try{

 request.setAttribute("accessCode", "19205679384");
 //other attribute settings...

 PortletRequestDispatcher prd = getPortletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/jsp/view.jsp");
 prd.include(request, response);


 }catch(Exception e){
 throw new RuntimeException(e);
 }
 }

 @Override
 public void processAction(ActionRequest request, ActionResponse response)
 throws PortletException, PortletSecurityException, IOException {
 // TODO Auto-generated method stub
 super.processAction(request, response);
 }


}

Thank you so much for all the help. When you say that you created a fresh server configuration, do you mean you created a new db for it and configured the portal-postgresql-ds.xml file for it?

I found the problem. I had used an example I had found online as a template, and there were extra jar files in the lib directory which got copied into the war. Once I cleared those out it worked fine.

Again, thanks for all the help!