This is a pattern question: I have implemented something similar to the login and authentication through the security chapter. I have a User class myself and I authenticate through querying it from the database. Both Seam provided Identity and my User classes have members like username, password etc. and basically they refer to the same notion. How is it recommended that I relate Identity with the user I got from the database? Should I extend Identity to build my User class perhaps? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4036727#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...