to answer as short as possible? ...yes! Nearly one year ago we compared JBP against jetspeed2 and liferay on behalf of our customer. Disappointed about liferays design and (professional support - they didn't find answer within one month) in contrast to the clearly structured design of JBP we decided to customize JBP for our customers needs. Yes, a group feature is currently missing but it's being discussed already by the portal team... For our needs we have improved JBP 2.4 by that feature and provided it in jira. In contrast to liferay extending the portals core was more or less straight-forward...! Attaching AD to the portal has been discussed in detail in this forum, a wiki page should be available... just search for it. Our decision for JBP wasn't driven by a quick setup only but for a sophisticated core design, extensibility, intuitive understanding and last but not least the support of the portal team within this forum... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4100036#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...