(You should have numbered you questions... I will assume you did.) 1) Should be contained in HTTPServletRequest.getRequestURL() or HTTPServletRequest.getRequestURI() 2) HTTPServletRequest.getUserPrincipal() 3) Obtain the "jboss:type=Server" MBean and invoke the shutdown() operation. 4) There are two very different questions here. Are you wanting to know how to use LDAP for authentication? Or do you want to know how to make calls into LDAP to find out which users are in a group? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4247952#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...