Taking jboss-forums.ear portlet as an example.
I removed the portlet-instances.xml and *-object.xml file descriptors. Deployed to a clean database.
Under the Manage Portlet>Portlet Definitions
I created a new JBoss Forums instance. Then a created a second JBoss Forums instance.
Let's say Forum1 and Forum2.
Now when I added Forum1 to Page1 and Forum2 to Page2. I noticed that both Forum instances were the same.
Has anyone noticed this before?
I could have swore that I did this yesterday and had two separate instances of JBoss Forums.