Look at the Identity JMX services. They are the services for manipulating Users, Roles and the User Profile. (no beans... beans are there for initialization, then they are used through JMX services). The main class is : org.jboss.portal.identity.IdentityContext from there, you can see the 4 services for identity. Look at the jboss-service.xml for the description of the service. In the UserPortlet.java, you can find an example of how to create/modify a User and it's profile data. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4078700#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...