title: Removing parts of Joomla CMS
body: <h2>Background</h2>
  
  <p>I have been developing a web application. I have been using Joomla platform and CMS as the base from my application. My application relies heavily on the joomla platform, but uses very few features of the CMS (I have to login users etc so I use the _users component of the CMS).</p>
  
  <h2>Question</h2>
  
  <p>What is the best way to start removing some of the excess CMS that I don't need? For example when I being building my production site, I will want to avoid creating a load of joomla component database tables etc. I have read that an application can be build from the ground up  using just the joomla platform, but i still want to include the _users component and would also like to avoid having to start coding all the session handling aspects.</p>
  
  <p>I guess I need to continue to have the basic CMS application, but with a really stripped down list of core components and no administrator backend.</p>
  
  <p>Any advice?</p>