The type IUser is deprecated

Hi experts,

In the below method the Iuser is deprecated in nwds 7.31 sp 12 , do we have any other aleternative for this , im using the below code to read data from KM

com.sapportals.portal.security.usermanagement.IUser epUser = null;

try 

{

epUser = WPUMFactory.getUserFactory().getEP5User(sapUser);

}

catch(Exception e)

{

}

Regards

Govardan