Index: config/src/main/resources/cms-static.xml
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<+>UTF-8
===================================================================
--- config/src/main/resources/cms-static.xml	(revision 37452)
+++ config/src/main/resources/cms-static.xml	(revision )
@@ -415,6 +415,9 @@
     <sv:property sv:name="top" sv:type="String">
       <sv:value>service.browse.tabscontainer</sv:value>
     </sv:property>
+    <sv:property sv:name="item" sv:type="String">
+      <sv:value>header.bar.right</sv:value>
+    </sv:property>
     <sv:node sv:name="browser.ie">
       <sv:property sv:name="jcr:primaryType" sv:type="Name">
         <sv:value>frontend:pluginconfig</sv:value>
@@ -521,6 +524,18 @@
     </sv:property>
     <sv:property sv:name="editor.id" sv:type="String">
       <sv:value>service.edit</sv:value>
+    </sv:property>
+  </sv:node>
+
+  <sv:node sv:name="headerbarLoader">
+    <sv:property sv:name="jcr:primaryType" sv:type="Name">
+      <sv:value>frontend:plugin</sv:value>
+    </sv:property>
+    <sv:property sv:name="cluster.name" sv:type="String">
+      <sv:value>cms-header-bar</sv:value>
+    </sv:property>
+    <sv:property sv:name="plugin.class" sv:type="String">
+      <sv:value>org.hippoecm.frontend.plugin.loader.PluginClusterLoader</sv:value>
     </sv:property>
   </sv:node>
 
Index: config/src/main/resources/cms-header-bar.xml
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<+>UTF-8
===================================================================
--- config/src/main/resources/cms-header-bar.xml	(revision )
+++ config/src/main/resources/cms-header-bar.xml	(revision )
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<sv:node sv:name="cms-header-bar" xmlns:sv="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/sv/1.0">
+  <sv:property sv:name="jcr:primaryType" sv:type="Name">
+    <sv:value>frontend:plugincluster</sv:value>
+  </sv:property>
+</sv:node>
Index: config/src/main/resources/hippoecm-extension.xml
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--- config/src/main/resources/hippoecm-extension.xml	(revision 37452)
+++ config/src/main/resources/hippoecm-extension.xml	(revision )
@@ -248,6 +248,20 @@
       <sv:value>900.53</sv:value>
     </sv:property>
   </sv:node>
+  <sv:node sv:name="cms-header-bar">
+    <sv:property sv:name="jcr:primaryType" sv:type="Name">
+      <sv:value>hippo:initializeitem</sv:value>
+    </sv:property>
+    <sv:property sv:name="hippo:contentresource" sv:type="String">
+      <sv:value>cms-header-bar.xml</sv:value>
+    </sv:property>
+    <sv:property sv:name="hippo:contentroot" sv:type="String">
+      <sv:value>/hippo:configuration/hippo:frontend/cms</sv:value>
+    </sv:property>
+    <sv:property sv:name="hippo:sequence" sv:type="Double">
+      <sv:value>900.54</sv:value>
+    </sv:property>
+  </sv:node>
   <!-- CMS editor perspective -->
   <sv:node sv:name="cms-editor">
     <sv:property sv:name="jcr:primaryType" sv:type="Name">
Index: perspectives/src/main/java/org/hippoecm/frontend/plugins/cms/root/RootPlugin.html
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--- perspectives/src/main/java/org/hippoecm/frontend/plugins/cms/root/RootPlugin.html	(revision 37452)
+++ perspectives/src/main/java/org/hippoecm/frontend/plugins/cms/root/RootPlugin.html	(revision )
@@ -25,9 +25,12 @@
             <div class="hippo-header">
               <a class="hippo-header-home">Hippo CMS 7</a>
               <div wicket:id="top" class="hippo-tabs-documents hippo-tabs-documents-top">tabs container here please</div>
-              <div class="hippo-header-logout" wicket:id="logout">
+              <div class="hippo-header-logout">
                 <span class="hippo-logout-username" wicket:id="username">[ user ]</span>
-                <ul class="hippo-logout">
+                  <ul class="hippo-header-items-right">
+                      <li wicket:id="view"><span wicket:id="item" /></li>
+                  </ul>
+                <ul class="hippo-logout" wicket:id="logout">
                   <li>
                     <a href="#" wicket:id="logout-link"><wicket:message key="logout-label"/></a>  
                   </li>
Index: skin/src/main/resources/skin/screen.css
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<+>UTF-8
===================================================================
--- skin/src/main/resources/skin/screen.css	(revision 37452)
+++ skin/src/main/resources/skin/screen.css	(revision )
@@ -224,6 +224,19 @@
   font-weight: bold;
 }
 
+.hippo-header-items-right {
+    position: absolute;
+    top: 5px;
+    right: 100px;
+}
+.hippo-header-items-right li {
+    float: left;
+    margin-right: 10px;
+}
+.hippo-header-items-right span span a {
+    color: #ffffff;
+}
+
 /* TabsPlugin perspective switcher (left buttons) */
 /* ================================================ */
 .tabbed-panel-layout-left {
Index: perspectives/src/main/java/org/hippoecm/frontend/plugins/cms/root/RootPlugin.java
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--- perspectives/src/main/java/org/hippoecm/frontend/plugins/cms/root/RootPlugin.java	(revision 37452)
+++ perspectives/src/main/java/org/hippoecm/frontend/plugins/cms/root/RootPlugin.java	(revision )
@@ -16,8 +16,17 @@
 package org.hippoecm.frontend.plugins.cms.root;
 
 import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.LinkedList;
 import java.util.List;
 
+import org.apache.wicket.behavior.AttributeAppender;
+import org.apache.wicket.markup.html.basic.Label;
+import org.apache.wicket.markup.repeater.Item;
+import org.apache.wicket.markup.repeater.data.IDataProvider;
+import org.apache.wicket.markup.repeater.data.ListDataProvider;
+import org.apache.wicket.model.IModel;
+import org.apache.wicket.model.Model;
+import org.apache.wicket.model.PropertyModel;
 import org.hippoecm.frontend.PluginRequestTarget;
 import org.hippoecm.frontend.extjs.ExtHippoThemeBehavior;
 import org.hippoecm.frontend.extjs.ExtWidgetRegistry;
@@ -25,6 +34,7 @@
 import org.hippoecm.frontend.js.HippoFutureResourceBehavior;
 import org.hippoecm.frontend.plugin.IPluginContext;
 import org.hippoecm.frontend.plugin.config.IPluginConfig;
+import org.hippoecm.frontend.plugins.cms.admin.users.User;
 import org.hippoecm.frontend.plugins.cms.root.BrowserSpecificStylesheetsBehavior.Browser;
 import org.hippoecm.frontend.plugins.cms.root.BrowserSpecificStylesheetsBehavior.StylesheetConfiguration;
 import org.hippoecm.frontend.plugins.cms.root.BrowserSpecificStylesheetsBehavior.UserAgent;
@@ -38,7 +48,12 @@
 import org.hippoecm.frontend.plugins.yui.layout.WireframeSettings;
 import org.hippoecm.frontend.plugins.yui.webapp.WebAppBehavior;
 import org.hippoecm.frontend.plugins.yui.webapp.WebAppSettings;
+import org.hippoecm.frontend.service.IRenderService;
 import org.hippoecm.frontend.service.IconSize;
+import org.hippoecm.frontend.service.ServiceTracker;
+import org.hippoecm.frontend.service.render.ListViewService;
+import org.hippoecm.frontend.session.UserSession;
+import org.hippoecm.frontend.widgets.AbstractView;
 import org.hippoecm.frontend.widgets.Pinger;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
@@ -53,6 +68,46 @@
     private boolean rendered = false;
     private final ExtWidgetRegistry extWidgetRegistry;
 
+    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
+    private String username;
+
+    private AbstractView<IRenderService> view;
+    private List<IRenderService> services;
+    private ServiceTracker<IRenderService> tracker;
+
+    private static class EvenOddModel extends Model<String> {
+        private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+        public EvenOddModel(int index) {
+            if (index % 2 == 0) {
+                setObject("even");
+            } else {
+                setObject("odd");
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static class RenderServiceModel extends Model<IRenderService> {
+        private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+        RenderServiceModel(IRenderService service) {
+            super(service);
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public int hashCode() {
+            return getObject().hashCode() * 19;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public boolean equals(Object that) {
+            if (that != null && that instanceof RenderServiceModel) {
+                return ((RenderServiceModel) that).getObject() == getObject();
+            }
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+
     public RootPlugin(IPluginContext context, IPluginConfig config) {
         super(context, config);
 
@@ -63,8 +118,74 @@
         } else {
             add(new Pinger("pinger"));
         }
+
+        String userID = getSession().getJcrSession().getUserID();
+        username = new User(userID).getDisplayName();
+
+        add(new Label("username", new PropertyModel(this, "username")));
+
         add(new LogoutLink("logout"));
 
+        services = new LinkedList<IRenderService>();
+
+        final IDataProvider<IRenderService> provider = new ListDataProvider<IRenderService>(services) {
+            private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+            @Override
+            public IModel<IRenderService> model(IRenderService object) {
+                return new RenderServiceModel(object);
+            }
+        };
+
+        view = new AbstractView<IRenderService>("view", provider) {
+            private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+            @Override
+            protected void populateItem(Item<IRenderService> item) {
+                IRenderService renderer = item.getModelObject();
+                renderer.bind(RootPlugin.this, "item");
+                item.add(renderer.getComponent());
+                RootPlugin.this.onAddRenderService(item, renderer);
+                item.add(new AttributeAppender("class", new EvenOddModel(item.getIndex()), " "));
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            protected void destroyItem(Item<IRenderService> item) {
+                IRenderService renderer = item.getModelObject();
+                item.remove(renderer.getComponent());
+                RootPlugin.this.onRemoveRenderService(item, renderer);
+                renderer.unbind();
+            }
+        };
+
+        String itemId = getItemId();
+        if (itemId != null) {
+            tracker = new ServiceTracker<IRenderService>(IRenderService.class) {
+                private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+                @Override
+                public void onServiceAdded(IRenderService service, String name) {
+                    log.debug("adding " + service + " to ListViewService at " + name);
+                    services.add(service);
+                }
+
+                @Override
+                public void onServiceChanged(IRenderService service, String name) {
+                }
+
+                @Override
+                public void onRemoveService(IRenderService service, String name) {
+                    log.debug("removing " + service + " from ListViewService at " + name);
+                    services.remove(service);
+                }
+            };
+            context.registerTracker(tracker, itemId);
+        } else {
+            log.warn("No item id configured");
+        }
+
+        add(view);
+
         PageLayoutSettings plSettings = new PageLayoutSettings();
         plSettings.setHeaderHeight(25);
         // TODO: update settings from config
@@ -116,6 +237,16 @@
             rendered = true;
         }
         super.render(target);
+    }
+
+    protected String getItemId() {
+        return getPluginConfig().getString(ListViewService.ITEM);
+    }
+
+    protected void onAddRenderService(Item<IRenderService> item, IRenderService renderer) {
+    }
+
+    protected void onRemoveRenderService(Item<IRenderService> item, IRenderService renderer) {
     }
 
 }