diff --git a/dspace/modules/pom.xml b/dspace/modules/pom.xml
index 75a949e6bd..9e262885e1 100644
--- a/dspace/modules/pom.xml
+++ b/dspace/modules/pom.xml
@@ -19,14 +19,72 @@
       <developerConnection>scm:svn:https://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/dspace/trunk/dspace/modules</developerConnection>
       <url>http://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/dspace/trunk/dspace/modules</url>
     </scm>
-   
-	<modules>
-		<module>xmlui</module>
-		<module>lni</module>
-		<module>oai</module>
-		<module>jspui</module>
-		<module>sword</module>
-		<module>solr</module>
-	</modules>
-	
+    
+    <!-- 
+         List of enabled DSpace Modules to build/install.
+         To disable building of modules, you can use the Maven '-P' commandline 
+         option along with the profile's id.  For example, the following tells
+         Maven to *disable* building of 'dspace-oai' and 'dspace-lni' modules:
+         'mvn package -P !dspace-oai,!dspace-lni'
+         
+         Also note that the profile IDs below match the profile IDs of the source
+         modules in /dspace/pom.xml, so the above command will also disable the
+         compiling of the corresponding source module.
+    -->
+    <profiles>
+        <profile>
+            <id>dspace-xmlui</id>
+            <activation>
+                <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
+            </activation>
+            <modules>
+                <module>xmlui</module>
+            </modules>
+        </profile>
+        <profile>
+            <id>dspace-lni</id>
+            <activation>
+                <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
+            </activation>
+            <modules>
+                <module>lni</module>
+            </modules>
+        </profile>
+        <profile>
+            <id>dspace-oai</id>
+            <activation>
+                <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
+            </activation>
+            <modules>
+                <module>oai</module>
+            </modules>
+        </profile>
+        <profile>
+            <id>dspace-jspui</id>
+            <activation>
+                <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
+            </activation>
+            <modules>
+                <module>jspui</module>
+            </modules>
+        </profile>
+        <profile>
+            <id>dspace-sword</id>
+            <activation>
+                <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
+            </activation>
+            <modules>
+                <module>sword</module>
+            </modules>
+        </profile>
+        <profile>
+            <id>dspace-solr</id>
+            <activation>
+                <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
+            </activation>
+            <modules>
+                <module>solr</module>
+            </modules>
+        </profile>
+    </profiles>
 </project>