diff --git a/core/config.class.inc.php b/core/config.class.inc.php
index 06965f6c37..2b7a9f3a22 100644
--- a/core/config.class.inc.php
+++ b/core/config.class.inc.php
@@ -1150,9 +1150,20 @@ class Config
 		{
 			return $this->m_aModuleSettings[$sModule][$sProperty];
 		}
-		return $defaultvalue;
+		// Fall back to the predefined XML parameter, if any
+		return $this->GetModuleParameter($sModule, $sProperty, $defaultvalue);
 	}
 
+	public function GetModuleParameter($sModule, $sProperty, $defaultvalue = null)
+	{
+		$aAllParams = ModulesXMLParameters::GetData($sModule);
+		if(array_key_exists($sProperty, $aAllParams))
+		{
+			return $aAllParams[$sProperty];
+		}
+		return $defaultvalue;
+	}
+	
 	public function SetModuleSetting($sModule, $sProperty, $value)
 	{
 		$this->m_aModuleSettings[$sModule][$sProperty] = $value;
diff --git a/setup/compiler.class.inc.php b/setup/compiler.class.inc.php
index 1c4be393f6..677fd37710 100644
--- a/setup/compiler.class.inc.php
+++ b/setup/compiler.class.inc.php
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ class MFCompiler
 
 		$this->aLog = array();
 		$this->sMainPHPCode = '<'.'?'."php\n";
+		$this->sMainPHPCode .= "/**\n";
+		$this->sMainPHPCode .= " * This file was automatically generated by the compiler on ".date('Y-m-d H:i:s')." -- DO NOT EDIT\n";
+		$this->sMainPHPCode .= " */\n";
 	}
 
 	protected function Log($sText)
@@ -384,6 +387,10 @@ EOF;
 		$oPortalsNode = $this->oFactory->GetNodes('/itop_design/portals')->item(0);
 		$this->CompilePortals($oPortalsNode, $sTempTargetDir, $sFinalTargetDir);
 		
+		// Compile the XML parameters
+		$oParametersNode = $this->oFactory->GetNodes('/itop_design/module_parameters')->item(0);
+		$this->CompileParameters($oParametersNode, $sTempTargetDir, $sFinalTargetDir);
+		
 		// Write core/main.php
 		SetupUtils::builddir($sTempTargetDir.'/core');
 		$sPHPFile = $sTempTargetDir.'/core/main.php';
@@ -1977,9 +1984,13 @@ EOF;
 			
 			uasort($aPortalsConfig, array(get_class($this), 'SortOnRank'));
 			
+			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "\n";
+			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "/**\n";
+			$this->sMainPHPCode .= " * Portal(s) definition(s) extracted from the XML definition at compile time\n";
+			$this->sMainPHPCode .= " */\n";
 			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "class PortalDispatcherData\n";
 			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "{\n";
-			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "\tprotected static \$aData = ".str_replace("\n", "\n\t", var_export($aPortalsConfig, true)).";\n\n";
+			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "\tprotected static \$aData = ".var_export($aPortalsConfig, true).";\n\n";
 			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "\tpublic static function GetData(\$sPortalId = null)\n";
 			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "\t{\n";
 			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "\t\tif (\$sPortalId === null) return self::\$aData;\n";
@@ -1989,11 +2000,42 @@ EOF;
 			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "}\n";
 		}
 	}
-	
+
 	public static function SortOnRank($aConf1, $aConf2)
 	{
 		return ($aConf1['rank'] < $aConf2['rank']) ? -1 : 1;
 	}
+	
+	protected function CompileParameters($oParametersNode, $sTempTargetDir, $sFinalTargetDir)
+	{
+		if ($oParametersNode)
+		{
+			// Create some static PHP data in <env-xxx>/core/main.php
+			$oParameters = $oParametersNode->GetNodes('parameters');
+			$aParametersConfig = array();
+			foreach($oParameters as $oParams)
+			{
+				$sModuleId = $oParams->getAttribute('id');
+				$oParamsReader = new MFParameters($oParams);
+				$aParametersConfig[$sModuleId] = $oParamsReader->GetAll();
+			}
+			
+			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "\n";
+			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "/**\n";
+			$this->sMainPHPCode .= " * Modules parameters extracted from the XML definition at compile time\n";
+			$this->sMainPHPCode .= " */\n";
+			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "class ModulesXMLParameters\n";
+			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "{\n";
+			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "\tprotected static \$aData = ".var_export($aParametersConfig, true).";\n\n";
+			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "\tpublic static function GetData(\$sModuleId = null)\n";
+			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "\t{\n";
+			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "\t\tif (\$sModuleId === null) return self::\$aData;\n";
+			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "\t\tif (!array_key_exists(\$sModuleId, self::\$aData)) return array();\n";
+			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "\t\treturn self::\$aData[\$sModuleId];\n";
+			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "\t}\n";
+			$this->sMainPHPCode .= "}\n";
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 ?>
diff --git a/setup/modelfactory.class.inc.php b/setup/modelfactory.class.inc.php
index af19d6bfa4..c3d789c33f 100644
--- a/setup/modelfactory.class.inc.php
+++ b/setup/modelfactory.class.inc.php
@@ -2079,4 +2079,241 @@ class MFDocument extends DOMDocument
 		return self::GetItopNodePath($oNode->parentNode).'/'.$sNodeDesc;
 	}	 	
 
+}
+
+/**
+ * Helper class manage parameters stored as XML nodes
+ * to be converted to a PHP structure during compilation
+ * Values can be either a hash, an array, a string, a boolean, an int or a float
+ */
+class MFParameters
+{
+	protected $aData = null;
+
+	public function __construct(DOMNode $oNode)
+	{
+		$this->aData = array();
+		$this->LoadFromDOM($oNode);
+	}
+
+	public function Get($sCode, $default = '')
+	{
+		if (array_key_exists($sCode, $this->aData))
+		{
+			return $this->aData[$sCode];
+		}
+		return $default;
+	}
+
+	public function GetAll()
+	{
+		return $this->aData;
+	}
+
+	public function LoadFromDOM(DOMNode $oNode)
+	{
+		$this->aData = array();
+		foreach($oNode->childNodes as $oChildNode)
+		{
+			if ($oChildNode instanceof DOMElement)
+			{
+				$this->aData[$oChildNode->nodeName] = $this->ReadElement($oChildNode);
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	protected function ReadElement(DOMNode $oNode)
+	{
+		if ($oNode instanceof DOMElement)
+		{
+			$sDefaultNodeType = ($this->HasChildNodes($oNode)) ? 'hash' : 'string';
+			$sNodeType = $oNode->getAttribute('type');
+			if ($sNodeType == '')
+			{
+				$sNodeType = $sDefaultNodeType;
+			}
+
+			switch($sNodeType)
+			{
+				case 'array':
+					$value = array();
+					// Treat the current element as zero based array, child tag names are NOT meaningful
+					$sFirstTagName = null;
+					foreach($oNode->childNodes as $oChildElement)
+					{
+						if ($oChildElement instanceof DOMElement)
+						{
+							if ($sFirstTagName == null)
+							{
+								$sFirstTagName = $oChildElement->nodeName;
+							}
+							else if ($sFirstTagName != $oChildElement->nodeName)
+							{
+								throw new Exception("Invalid Parameters: mixed tags ('$sFirstTagName' and '".$oChildElement->nodeName."') inside array '".$oNode->nodeName."'");
+							}
+							$val = $this->ReadElement($oChildElement);
+							$idx = (string)$oChildElement->getAttribute('id'); // Don't cast into float, since floats are converted to int (i.e. truncated) when used as hash indexes (cf: http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php)
+							if ($idx !== '')
+							{
+								$value[$idx] = $val;
+							}
+							else
+							{
+								// No specific Id, just push the value at the end of the array
+								$value[] = $val;
+							}
+						}
+					}
+					ksort($value, SORT_NUMERIC);
+					break;
+						
+				case 'hash':
+					$value = array();
+					// Treat the current element as a hash, child tag names are keys
+					foreach($oNode->childNodes as $oChildElement)
+					{
+						if ($oChildElement instanceof DOMElement)
+						{
+							if (array_key_exists($oChildElement->nodeName, $value))
+							{
+								throw new Exception("Invalid Parameters file: duplicate tags '".$oChildElement->nodeName."' inside hash '".$oNode->nodeName."'");
+							}
+							$val = $this->ReadElement($oChildElement);
+							$value[$oChildElement->nodeName] = $val;
+						}
+					}
+					break;
+						
+				case 'int':
+				case 'integer':
+					$value = (int)$this->GetText($oNode);
+					break;
+						
+				case 'bool':
+				case 'boolean':
+					if (($this->GetText($oNode) == 'true') || ($this->GetText($oNode) == 1))
+					{
+						$value = true;
+					}
+					else
+					{
+						$value = false;
+					}
+					break;
+						
+				case 'string':
+				default:
+					$value = str_replace('\n', "\n", (string)$this->GetText($oNode));
+			}
+		}
+		else if ($oNode instanceof DOMText)
+		{
+			$value = $oNode->wholeText;
+		}
+		return $value;
+	}
+
+	protected function GetAttribute($sAttName, $oNode, $sDefaultValue)
+	{
+		$sRet = $sDefaultValue;
+
+		foreach($oNode->attributes as $oAttribute)
+		{
+			if ($oAttribute->nodeName == $sAttName)
+			{
+				$sRet = $oAttribute->nodeValue;
+				break;
+			}
+		}
+		return $sRet;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Returns the TEXT of the current node (possibly from several subnodes)
+	 */
+	public function GetText($oNode, $sDefault = null)
+	{
+		$sText = null;
+		foreach($oNode->childNodes as $oChildNode)
+		{
+			if ($oChildNode instanceof DOMText)
+			{
+				if (is_null($sText)) $sText = '';
+				$sText .= $oChildNode->wholeText;
+			}
+		}
+		if (is_null($sText))
+		{
+			return $sDefault;
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			return $sText;
+		}
+	}
+	/**
+	 * Check if a node as child nodes (apart from text nodes)
+	 */
+	public function HasChildNodes($oNode)
+	{
+		if ($oNode instanceof DOMElement)
+		{
+			foreach($oNode->childNodes as $oChildNode)
+			{
+				if ($oChildNode instanceof DOMElement)
+				{
+					return true;
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		return false;
+	}
+	function Merge(XMLParameters $oTask)
+	{
+		$this->aData = $this->array_merge_recursive_distinct($this->aData, $oTask->aData);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * array_merge_recursive does indeed merge arrays, but it converts values with duplicate
+	 * keys to arrays rather than overwriting the value in the first array with the duplicate
+	 * value in the second array, as array_merge does. I.e., with array_merge_recursive,
+	 * this happens (documented behavior):
+	 *
+	 * array_merge_recursive(array('key' => 'org value'), array('key' => 'new value'));
+	 *     => array('key' => array('org value', 'new value'));
+	 *
+	 * array_merge_recursive_distinct does not change the datatypes of the values in the arrays.
+	 * Matching keys' values in the second array overwrite those in the first array, as is the
+	 * case with array_merge, i.e.:
+	 *
+	 * array_merge_recursive_distinct(array('key' => 'org value'), array('key' => 'new value'));
+	 *     => array('key' => array('new value'));
+	 *
+	 * Parameters are passed by reference, though only for performance reasons. They're not
+	 * altered by this function.
+	 *
+	 * @param array $array1
+	 * @param array $array2
+	 * @return array
+	 * @author Daniel <daniel (at) danielsmedegaardbuus (dot) dk>
+	 * @author Gabriel Sobrinho <gabriel (dot) sobrinho (at) gmail (dot) com>
+	 */
+	protected function array_merge_recursive_distinct ( array &$array1, array &$array2 )
+	{
+		$merged = $array1;
+
+		foreach ( $array2 as $key => &$value )
+		{
+			if ( is_array ( $value ) && isset ( $merged [$key] ) && is_array ( $merged [$key] ) )
+			{
+				$merged [$key] = $this->array_merge_recursive_distinct ( $merged [$key], $value );
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				$merged [$key] = $value;
+			}
+		}
+
+		return $merged;
+	}
 }
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