Hello. you can check the permission on a role by using the request.isUserInRole("myRole") It would return true if the user has the role "myRole". Would that be enough for you ? (if you define new roles other than "user" and "admin" you need to define them in portlet.xml so that it can work. See the JSR 168 specifications for more details.) I hope this will help. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4000330#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...