No progress with this problem! I ran the Websale example with more success so I guess the problem resides in the way I have defined the identities or the assignment(s) then. After all the hibernate code that eat up all the time relates exactly to this. | <identity> | <!-- 2 doctors --> | <user id="1" name="doc1" email="doc1work" password="crunchcrunch" /> | <user id="2" name="doc2" email="doc1@work" password="canthereyoubert,theresabananainmyear" /> | | <!-- 2 OE people --> | <user id="3" name="oe1" email="oe1@work" password="ernie,theresabananainyourear" /> | <user id="4" name="oe2" email="oe2@work" password="mayday mayday" /> | | <!-- 3 groups --> | <group name="doctors" type="hierachy" /> | <group name="oeteam" type="hierachy" /> | <group name="patients" type="organisation" /> | | <!-- Assign groups --> | <membership user="doc1" group="doctors" /> | <membership user="doc2" group="doctors" /> | | <membership user="oe1" group="oeteam" /> | <membership user="oe2" group="oeteam" /> | | </identity> | Any suggestion, really ANY, will be much appreciated! Regards, Johan ps: the process def. in at the beginning of this thread (which is long enough already...) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4003378#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...