diff --git a/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/pom.xml b/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/pom.xml
index b862a72ec..7e91a873b 100644
--- a/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/pom.xml
+++ b/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/pom.xml
@@ -419,5 +419,26 @@
         </plugins>
       </build>
     </profile>
-  </profiles>
+    <profile>
+      <id>postgres</id>
+      <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+          <groupId>postgresql</groupId>
+          <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
+          <version>8.2-504.jdbc3</version>
+        </dependency>
+      </dependencies>
+      <build>
+        <plugins>
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
+            <configuration>
+              <jettyEnvXml>src/jetty-env-postgres.xml</jettyEnvXml>
+            </configuration>
+          </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+      </build>
+    </profile>
+   </profiles>
 </project>
diff --git a/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/jetty-env-postgres.xml b/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/jetty-env-postgres.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8914ac44a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/jetty-env-postgres.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
+  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  ~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  ~ KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+  ~ specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  ~ under the License.
+  -->
+
+<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Mort Bay Consulting//DTD Configure//EN" "http://jetty.mortbay.org/configure.dtd">
+
+<Configure class="org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
+
+
+
+
+<New id="validation_mail" class="org.mortbay.jetty.plus.naming.Resource">
+  <Arg>mail/Session</Arg>
+  <Arg>
+    <New class="org.mortbay.naming.factories.MailSessionReference">
+      <Set name="user"></Set>
+      <Set name="password"></Set>
+      <Set name="properties">
+        <New class="java.util.Properties">
+          <Put name="mail.smtp.host">localhost</Put>
+          <Put name="mail.from">continuum@localhost</Put>
+          <Put name="mail.senderName">Continuum</Put>
+          <Put name="mail.debug">true</Put>
+        </New>
+      </Set>
+    </New>
+  </Arg>
+</New>
+
+<New id="archiva" class="org.mortbay.jetty.plus.naming.Resource">
+  <Arg>jdbc/archiva</Arg>
+  <Arg>
+    <New class="org.postgresql.ds.PGPoolingDataSource">
+      <Set name="serverName">localhost</Set>
+      <Set name="databaseName">archiva</Set>
+      <Set name="user">postgres</Set>
+      <Set name="password">sparky</Set>
+    </New>
+  </Arg>
+</New>
+<New id="archiva_shutdown" class="org.mortbay.jetty.plus.naming.Resource">
+  <Arg>jdbc/archiva_shutdown</Arg>
+  <Arg>
+    <New class="org.postgresql.ds.PGPoolingDataSource">
+      <Set name="serverName">localhost</Set>
+      <Set name="databaseName">archiva</Set>
+      <Set name="user">postgres</Set>
+      <Set name="password">sparky</Set>  
+    </New>
+  </Arg>
+</New>
+<New id="users" class="org.mortbay.jetty.plus.naming.Resource">
+  <Arg>jdbc/users</Arg>
+  <Arg>
+    <New class="org.postgresql.ds.PGPoolingDataSource">
+      <Set name="serverName">localhost</Set>
+      <Set name="databaseName">users</Set>
+      <Set name="user">postgres</Set>
+      <Set name="password">sparky</Set>
+    </New>
+  </Arg>
+</New>
+<New id="users_shutdown" class="org.mortbay.jetty.plus.naming.Resource">
+  <Arg>jdbc/users_shutdown</Arg>
+  <Arg>
+    <New class="org.postgresql.ds.PGPoolingDataSource">
+      <Set name="serverName">localhost</Set>
+      <Set name="databaseName">users</Set>
+      <Set name="user">postgres</Set>
+      <Set name="password">sparky</Set>  
+    </New>
+  </Arg>
+</New>
+
+</Configure>
+