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The use of the Person Service can cause performance issues that as of KFS 5.0.2/Rice 2.1.3 can possibly be mitigated by using the Identity Service instead. There is an API change in Rice 2.1.3 that facilitates this (see: KULRICE-8723), and there is a contribution coming in a future internal KFS patch release (5.0.3) that implements this performance improvement in KFS (see: KFSCNTRB-1337). Implementers should also keep this in mind when upgrading their own code. An example of this type of change would be to change the following code:
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