There are some description of some modules here: http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=PortalModules Basically "minimum" depends on your needs. There are the services and the webapps. Of course the webapps depend on the services. You don't want the CMS webapps ? remove portal-cms.war, you don't even want the CMS service ? remove portal-cms.sar You don't want the admin portlet ? remove portal-admin.sar (unfortunately the dashboard depends on it) You don't want the Google widget support ? remove portal-widget.war You don't want the Netvibes widget support ? remove portal-widget-netvibes.war You don't want the identity portlets ? rewmove portal-identity.sar View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4127732#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...