I'm trapping the security in my application using identity as advised in seam. i add roles from the database to the iddentity using for all roles boolean sts=identity.addRole( nextroleTXT) Identity seems to resonds using false and the roles are not set (hasRole ,,,, none .... Any suggestions roles are important for security View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4055715#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...