Hi , I am working in a reporting Application please help me regarding the folowing scenario, * A stand alone java program. * There must be a method to login to the jasper by giving username/password. * There must be a method to fetch all the users/roles created in jasper server. I tried this using following methods ,i could able to login in but while fetching all users/roles ,UserAuthorityService object getting null The methode for login is , private WebResponse commonLoginFunction(String url) throws Exception { WebResponse response = null; WebConversation wcon = new WebConversation(); WebRequest wreq = new GetMethodWebRequest(new URL(url), ""); response = wcon.getResponse(wreq); WebForm form = response.getForms()[0]; assertEquals("Form Action", "j_acegi_security_check", form.getAction ()); wreq = form.getRequest(); wreq.setParameter("j_username", "jasperadmin"); wreq.setParameter("j_password", "jasperadmin"); response = wcon.getResponse(wreq); return response; } Here i have hadcoded username and password . Then i am invoking 'userMgmt' mehtod for fething user names and roles in 'JSCommonController.java' as follows, modelview=jsc.userMgmt(req,rsp); userList=(List)req.getAttribute("userList"); roleList=(List)req.getAttribute("roleList"); But the 'UserAuthorityService' getting null , i think thhis is initialized at the server startup itself . The stack trace is as follows, java.lang.NullPointerException at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.war.control.JRBaseMultiActionController.getAllRoles(JRBaseMultiActionController.java:125) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.war.control.JSCommonController.userMgmt(JSCommonController.java:104) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.LogintoJasper.doGet(LogintoJasper.java:74) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.war.common.UploadMultipartFilter.doFilter(UploadMultipartFilter.java:83) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:292) at org.acegisecurity.intercept.web.FilterSecurityInterceptor.invoke(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:116) at org.acegisecurity.intercept.web.FilterSecurityInterceptor.doFilter(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:79) at org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:303) at org.acegisecurity.ui.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:143) at org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:303) at org.acegisecurity.providers.anonymous.AnonymousProcessingFilter.doFilter(AnonymousProcessingFilter.java:138) at org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:303) at org.acegisecurity.ui.basicauth.BasicProcessingFilter.doFilter(BasicProcessingFilter.java:207) at org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:303) at org.acegisecurity.ui.AbstractProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractProcessingFilter.java:246) at org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:303) at org.acegisecurity.context.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.java:220) at org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:303) at org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:173) at org.acegisecurity.util.FilterToBeanProxy.doFilter(FilterToBeanProxy.java:120) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684) :)