Hello,
I just downloaded the tomcat bundle of the new portlet container beta 1. After setting up and running it without any errors on the console, I typed the url http://localhost:8080/simple-portal and i get an exception on the page as ff
java.lang.NullPointerException org.jboss.portal.portlet.test.jsp.PagePortletControllerContext.<init>(PagePortletControllerContext.java:74) org.jboss.portal.portlet.test.jsp.ControllerFilter.doFilter(ControllerFilter.java:97) org.jboss.portal.portlet.test.jsp.ControllerFilter.doFilter(ControllerFilter.java:78)
It looks like you are using the Beta 1 release, could you try the Candidate Release 1 ?
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22866&package_id=84509&release_id=582035