Emanuel is talking about adding features. Why keeping the old one ? Please give some use cases. For the end-users it won't change anything but having more features. The "old one" will still work, we can keep the code for it but not define it in portlet.xml (to avoid confusion). The identity services won't change so people who added features on the existing portlet (and never contributed back by the way ;) ) will still be able to use it. The new user portlet, will be a complete rewrite. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4070884#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...