JEMS: leverages the power of JBoss Enterprise Middleware Services: JBoss Application Server, JBoss Cache, JGroups, and Hibernate.

Database Agnostic: works with any RDBMS supported by Hibernate.

Java™ Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS): custom authentication via JAAS login modules.

Caching: utilizes render-view caching for improved performance.

Clustering: cluster support allows the portal state to be clustered for all portal instances.

Hot-deployment: leverages JBoss dynamic auto-deployment features.

SAR Installer: browser-based installer makes installation and initial configuration a breeze.

Leverages Apache Tomcat and JBoss Single Sign On (SSO) solutions.

Integrates with Java Open Single Sign-On (JOSSO) and Central Authentication Service (CAS) out of the box. Experimental support for the Open Web SSO project (OpenSSO).

Connect to virtually any LDAP server.

Integrates with Sun™ Active Directory and OpenLDAP out of the box. Experimental support for Microsoft® Active Directory®.

Portlet Specification and API 1.0 (JSR-168).

Portlet Specification and API 2.0 (JSR-286).

Content Repository for Java™ technology API (JSR-170).

JavaServer™ Faces 1.2 (JSR-252).

JavaServer™ Faces 2.0 (JSR-314).

Java Management Extension (JMX™) 1.2.

Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) 1.0: refer to WSRP support in JBoss Portal for further details.

Full J2EE™ 1.4 compliance when used with JBoss Application Server.

Multiple Portal Instances: the ability to have multiple portal instances running inside one portal container.

IPC: the Inter-Portlet Communication API enables portlets to create links to other objects, such as pages, portals, and windows.

Dynamic: the ability for administrators and users to create and destroy objects such as portlets, pages, portals, themes, and layouts at runtime.

Internationalization: the ability to use internationalization resource files for every portlet.

Pluggable Services: with authentication performed by the servlet container and JAAS, it is possible to swap the authentication scheme.

Page-based Architecture: allows the grouping and division of portlets on a per-page basis.

Existing Framework Support: portlets utilizing Apache Struts, Spring Web MVC, Sun JSF-RI, AJAX, and Apache MyFaces are supported.

Swapping Themes and Layouts: new themes and layouts containing images can easily be deployed in WAR archives.

Flexible API: the Theme and Layout APIs are designed to separate the business layer from the presentation layer.

Per-page Layout Strategy: different layouts can be assigned to different pages.

User Registration and Validation: configurable registration parameters allow user email validation before activation.

Workflow: ability to define your own jBPM workflow on user registration.

User Log In: makes use of servlet container authentication.

Create and Edit Users: ability for administrators to create and edit user profiles.

Create and Edit Roles: ability for administrators to create and edit roles.

Role Assignment: ability for administrators to assign users to roles.

CAPTCHA Support: distinguish between humans and machines when registering.

Extendable Permissions API: allows custom portlet permissions based on role definition.

Administrative Interface: allows permission assignments to roles at any time for any deployed portlet, page, or portal instance.

JCR-compliant: the CMS is powered by Apache Jackrabbit, an open source implementation of the Java™ content repository API.

Database and File System Store Support: configure the content store for either a file system or an RDBMS.

External Blob Support: configurable content store, allowing large blobs to reside on a file system, and content node references and properties to reside in an RDBMS.

Version and History Support: all content edited and created is auto-versioned with a history of edits, that can be viewed at any time.

Content Serving Search-engine-friendly URLS: http://your-domain/portal/content/index.html (does not apply to portlet actions).

No Long Portal URLS: serve binaries with simple URLs (http://your-domain/files/products.pdf).

Multiple HTML Portlet Instance Support: allows extra instances of static content from the CMS to be served under separate windows.

Directory Support: create, move, delete, copy, and upload entire directory trees.

File Functions: create, move, delete, copy, and upload files.

Embedded Directory-browser: when creating, moving, deleting, or copying files, administrators can navigate the directory tree to find the collection they want to perform the action on.

Ease-of-use Architecture: all actions to be performed on files and folder are one mouse-click away.

Full-featured HTML Editor: the HTML editor contains a WYSIWYG mode, preview functionality, and HTML source editting mode. HTML commands support tables, fonts, zooming, image and URL linking, flash movie support, bullet and numbered list, and dozens more.

Editor Style Sheet Support: to easily chose classes, the WYSIWYG editor displays the current portal style sheet.

Internationalization Support: content can be attributed to a specific locale, and then served to the user based on his or hers Web browser settings.

Workflow Support: basic submit for review and approval process.