I must say that this task of creating a user programmatically has led me to UserModuleImpl like the originator of this thread. I am using Jboss Portal 4.0.5 GA (Jboss 2.4) as well. I know you guys are working on 2.6 but it is not GA. Therefore, it will be considered until it goes to GA from our corporate standards-you will find this to be true for most of the corporate users. My needs are two folds: 1) be able to programmatically create/delete/list users as an admin of the portal 2) I need to give my client to be able to do this without giving the admin access (i.e. complete access to the portal) to the portal as a portlet. there is virtually no description of HOW this works in the reference guide and this thread is as close as I got to explanation but not full detail. I am running Jboss Portal 4.0.5 GA on Windows 2003 Server with PostgreSQL 8.0.1 DB server and my code is as follows: public class Index extends UserModuleImpl { public void CreateUser() throws Exception { try { userModuleImpl = new UserModuleImpl(); System.out.println("UserModuleImpl object (" + userModuleImpl + ")!"); userModuleImpl.createUser(this.userid, this.password, this.email); System.out.println("UserModuleImple object (PASSED CREATE USER())"); } catch(Exception e) { lastname += "; " + e.toString(); throw new Exception("ERROR in Index.CreateUser! " + e.toString(), e); } } and my debug server log message is: 2007-06-06 09:36:19,422 DEBUG [org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener] processing flush-time cascades 2007-06-06 09:36:19,422 DEBUG [org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener] dirty checking collections 2007-06-06 09:36:19,422 DEBUG [org.hibernate.engine.Collections] Collection found: [org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl.dynamic#3], was: [org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl.dynamic#3] (initialized) 2007-06-06 09:36:19,422 DEBUG [org.hibernate.engine.Collections] Collection found: [org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl.roles#3], was: [org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl.roles#3] (initialized) 2007-06-06 09:36:19,422 DEBUG [org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener] Flushed: 0 insertions, 0 updates, 0 deletions to 1 objects 2007-06-06 09:36:19,422 DEBUG [org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener] Flushed: 0 (re)creations, 0 updates, 0 removals to 2 collections 2007-06-06 09:36:19,422 DEBUG [org.hibernate.pretty.Printer] listing entities: 2007-06-06 09:36:19,422 DEBUG [org.hibernate.pretty.Printer] org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl{password=21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3, dynamic=[1181144156839], key=3, userName=admin, enabled=true, registrationDate=2007-04-27 11:51:17, realEmail=admin(a)portal.com, viewRealEmail=true, fakeEmail=null, roles=[org.jboss.portal.identity.db.RoleImpl#1], givenName=null, familyName=null} 2007-06-06 09:36:19,422 DEBUG [org.hibernate.jdbc.ConnectionManager] aggressively releasing JDBC connection 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.jdbc.JDBCContext] successfully registered Synchronization 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl] opened session at timestamp: 4837966558978048 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cache.StandardQueryCache] checking cached query results in region: org.hibernate.cache.StandardQueryCache 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cache.EhCache] key: sql: select userimpl0_.jbp_uid as jbp1_11_, userimpl0_.jbp_uname as jbp2_11_, userimpl0_.jbp_givenname as jbp3_11_, userimpl0_.jbp_familyname as jbp4_11_, userimpl0_.jbp_password as jbp5_11_, userimpl0_.jbp_realemail as jbp6_11_, userimpl0_.jbp_fakeemail as jbp7_11_, userimpl0_.jbp_regdate as jbp8_11_, userimpl0_.jbp_viewrealemail as jbp9_11_, userimpl0_.jbp_enabled as jbp10_11_ from jbp_users userimpl0_ where userimpl0_.jbp_uname=?; parameters: ; named parameters: {userName=admin} 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cache.StandardQueryCache] Checking query spaces for up-to-dateness: [jbp_users] 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cache.EhCache] key: jbp_users 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cache.EhCache] Element for jbp_users is null 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cache.StandardQueryCache] returning cached query results 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cache.EhCache] key: org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl#3 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.engine.StatefulPersistenceContext] initializing non-lazy collections 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cache.EhCache] key: org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl.roles#3 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cache.EhCache] key: org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl.dynamic#3 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.jdbc.JDBCContext] successfully registered Synchronization 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl] opened session at timestamp: 11811441794 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] Looking for UserTransaction under: UserTransaction 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] Obtained UserTransaction 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] begin 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] commit 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.jdbc.JDBCContext] successfully registered Synchronization 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl] opened session at timestamp: 11811441794 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] Looking for UserTransaction under: UserTransaction 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] Obtained UserTransaction 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] begin 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] commit 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.jdbc.JDBCContext] successfully registered Synchronization 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl] opened session at timestamp: 11811441794 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] Looking for UserTransaction under: UserTransaction 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] Obtained UserTransaction 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] begin 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] commit 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.jdbc.JDBCContext] successfully registered Synchronization 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl] opened session at timestamp: 11811441794 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] Looking for UserTransaction under: UserTransaction 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] Obtained UserTransaction 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] begin 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] commit 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener] processing flush-time cascades 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener] dirty checking collections 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.engine.Collections] Collection found: [org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl.dynamic#3], was: [org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl.dynamic#3] (initialized) 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.engine.Collections] Collection found: [org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl.roles#3], was: [org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl.roles#3] (initialized) 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener] Flushed: 0 insertions, 0 updates, 0 deletions to 1 objects 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener] Flushed: 0 (re)creations, 0 updates, 0 removals to 2 collections 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.pretty.Printer] listing entities: 2007-06-06 09:36:19,438 DEBUG [org.hibernate.pretty.Printer] org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl{password=21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3, dynamic=[1181144156839], key=3, userName=admin, enabled=true, registrationDate=2007-04-27 11:51:17, realEmail=admin(a)portal.com, viewRealEmail=true, fakeEmail=null, roles=[org.jboss.portal.identity.db.RoleImpl#1], givenName=null, familyName=null} 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.jdbc.JDBCContext] successfully registered Synchronization 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.jdbc.ConnectionManager] aggressively releasing JDBC connection 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl] opened session at timestamp: 11811441794 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] Looking for UserTransaction under: UserTransaction 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] Obtained UserTransaction 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] begin 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] commit 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.jdbc.JDBCContext] successfully registered Synchronization 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl] opened session at timestamp: 11811441794 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] Looking for UserTransaction under: UserTransaction 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] Obtained UserTransaction 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] begin 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] commit 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.jdbc.JDBCContext] successfully registered Synchronization 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl] opened session at timestamp: 4837966559039488 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener] processing flush-time cascades 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener] dirty checking collections 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cache.StandardQueryCache] checking cached query results in region: org.hibernate.cache.StandardQueryCache 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cache.EhCache] key: sql: select userimpl0_.jbp_uid as jbp1_11_, userimpl0_.jbp_uname as jbp2_11_, userimpl0_.jbp_givenname as jbp3_11_, userimpl0_.jbp_familyname as jbp4_11_, userimpl0_.jbp_password as jbp5_11_, userimpl0_.jbp_realemail as jbp6_11_, userimpl0_.jbp_fakeemail as jbp7_11_, userimpl0_.jbp_regdate as jbp8_11_, userimpl0_.jbp_viewrealemail as jbp9_11_, userimpl0_.jbp_enabled as jbp10_11_ from jbp_users userimpl0_ where userimpl0_.jbp_uname=?; parameters: ; named parameters: {userName=admin} 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cache.StandardQueryCache] Checking query spaces for up-to-dateness: [jbp_users] 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.engine.Collections] Collection found: [org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl.dynamic#3], was: [org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl.dynamic#3] (initialized) 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cache.EhCache] key: jbp_users 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.engine.Collections] Collection found: [org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl.roles#3], was: [org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl.roles#3] (initialized) 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cache.EhCache] Element for jbp_users is null 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cache.StandardQueryCache] returning cached query results 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener] Flushed: 0 insertions, 0 updates, 0 deletions to 1 objects 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener] Flushed: 0 (re)creations, 0 updates, 0 removals to 2 collections 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.pretty.Printer] listing entities: 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cache.EhCache] key: org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl#3 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.engine.StatefulPersistenceContext] initializing non-lazy collections 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cache.EhCache] key: org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl.roles#3 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.pretty.Printer] org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl{password=21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3, dynamic=[1181144156839], key=3, userName=admin, enabled=true, registrationDate=2007-04-27 11:51:17, realEmail=admin(a)portal.com, viewRealEmail=true, fakeEmail=null, roles=[org.jboss.portal.identity.db.RoleImpl#1], givenName=null, familyName=null} 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.jdbc.ConnectionManager] aggressively releasing JDBC connection 2007-06-06 09:36:19,453 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cache.EhCache] key: org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl.dynamic#3 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.jdbc.JDBCContext] successfully registered Synchronization 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl] opened session at timestamp: 11811441794 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] Looking for UserTransaction under: UserTransaction 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] Obtained UserTransaction 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] begin 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] commit 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.jdbc.JDBCContext] successfully registered Synchronization 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl] opened session at timestamp: 11811441794 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] Looking for UserTransaction under: UserTransaction 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] Obtained UserTransaction 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] begin 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] commit 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.jdbc.JDBCContext] successfully registered Synchronization 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl] opened session at timestamp: 11811441794 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] Looking for UserTransaction under: UserTransaction 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] Obtained UserTransaction 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] begin 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] commit 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.jdbc.JDBCContext] successfully registered Synchronization 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl] opened session at timestamp: 11811441794 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] Looking for UserTransaction under: UserTransaction 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] Obtained UserTransaction 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] begin 2007-06-06 09:36:19,469 DEBUG [org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction] commit 2007-06-06 09:36:19,485 DEBUG [org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener] processing flush-time cascades 2007-06-06 09:36:19,485 DEBUG [org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener] dirty checking collections 2007-06-06 09:36:19,485 DEBUG [org.hibernate.engine.Collections] Collection found: [org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl.dynamic#3], was: [org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl.dynamic#3] (initialized) 2007-06-06 09:36:19,485 DEBUG [org.hibernate.engine.Collections] Collection found: [org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl.roles#3], was: [org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl.roles#3] (initialized) 2007-06-06 09:36:19,485 DEBUG [org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener] Flushed: 0 insertions, 0 updates, 0 deletions to 1 objects 2007-06-06 09:36:19,485 DEBUG [org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener] Flushed: 0 (re)creations, 0 updates, 0 removals to 2 collections 2007-06-06 09:36:19,485 DEBUG [org.hibernate.pretty.Printer] listing entities: 2007-06-06 09:36:19,485 DEBUG [org.hibernate.pretty.Printer] org.jboss.portal.identity.db.UserImpl{password=21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3, dynamic=[1181144156839], key=3, userName=admin, enabled=true, registrationDate=2007-04-27 11:51:17, realEmail=admin(a)portal.com, viewRealEmail=true, fakeEmail=null, roles=[org.jboss.portal.identity.db.RoleImpl#1], givenName=null, familyName=null} 2007-06-06 09:36:19,485 DEBUG [org.hibernate.jdbc.ConnectionManager] aggressively releasing JDBC connection and get "No Session Factory" error message. so what is the proper steps to use this module? thanks bunch.. 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