About the CMS integration with Portal. I agree with you that those are two separate concerns. However JBoss Portal as a *product* ships with a CMS. It is totally possible to remove the CMS and only keep the aggregation capabilities of the portal if you don't need CMS : 1/ delete portal-cms.war 2/ remove cms related stuff : portlets, instances and portlet windows If you look at jboss-service.xml you can even change how the URL decoding is performed : 1/ remove the PrefixDelegatingCommandMapper 2/ set the PortalObjectCommandMapper as the next of the DefaultPortalCommandMapper service this way you should have /a/b/c act the same as /portal/a/b/c View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3959624#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...