There is no real debug info in the expressionassignmenthandler. Most likely the group/role is not there or not correctly configured View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4082783#4082783 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4082783