Hi Denis, I am going to look at that and try to access the user profile from a portlet test case (since it is what the spring portlet is trying to do). It may be possible that there is a bug due to the fact that the simple portal does not integrate with any identity system and would lead to that NPE. We are looking forward doing a release CR1 of the JBoss Portlet Container product. I created a JIRA for tracking purposes: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPORTAL-1940 View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4133526#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...