Hello, I have an ear file that contains secured EJBs. The beans are coded using EJB3 annotations @Local, @Stateless and are secured using @DeclareRoles, @RolesAllowed, and @SecurityDomain. Everything seems to deploy perfectly and I can get the bean instance from JNDI from a servlet located in a different EAR but in the save JBoss instance. My questions is regarding security role references. My beans are coded with @RolesAllowed({"UserRole"}) but the role in the database for the users is "USER ROLE". Because of this, I know I need to use some sort of security role referencing to map "USER ROLE" to "UserRole". Since I'm using annotations to code my EJBs, how can I do this? I've tried to add the following to jboss-app.xml in the ear that contains the EJBs but it did not work. <security-role> <role-name>UserRole</role-name> <principal-name>USER ROLE</principal-name> </security-role> Can anyone help me? All beans will have the same roles so I want to do this on globally. I though the jboss-app.xml would work. I'm I doing something wrong? I'm using JBoss 4.2.3, JAVA 6, EJB3. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4192888#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...