I decided for the time being to use the pier user management and rights management for my application. If I use these it seems to be feasible to use the commands as well. Do you think it is a good idea to extend the usage of PRCommands into my own (embedded) components (that do not deal with the pier structure)? And if you think it is what are the ways of having commands that deal with an embedded component? I mean commands are resolved over the couple context-structure. If I have a component embedded inside of this structure how can make a command act on this embedded component? thanks, Norbert