JBoss development, A new comment was created on the document Mapping Roles in JBoss Application Server v5.x: http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-14762#comment-2975 Author : Duane Yang Profile: http://community.jboss.org/people/Duane Comment: I find I can add this to jboss-web.xml and it works well..           <security-role>       <role-name>Manager</role-name>       <principal-name>j2ee</principal-name>       <principal-name>javajoe</principal-name>         </security-role>