Provide config/module aliasing ability
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                 Key: GERONIMO-2409
                 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-2409
             Project: Geronimo
          Issue Type: Improvement
      Security Level: public (Regular issues)
          Components: core
    Affects Versions: 1.2
            Reporter: David Jencks
         Assigned To: David Jencks
             Fix For: 1.2


It's sort of impossible to swap a basic configuration such as transaction with 
a substitute such as transaction-jta11: there are too many modules that depend 
on it that all have to be rebuilt just because you changed one name.

To fix this we need some way to substitute one module (configuration) for 
another.  We might aim for a function-based registry rather than a name based 
one, but that is more that I want to think about right now.

I've done some simple experiments and it looks like some trivial changes in 
DefaultArtifactResolver, the car maven plugin, and an additional properties 
file in the server at least let you swap modules and get the server started.  I 
expected that changes in the kernel gbean lookups and Configuration gbean 
lookups would be necessary as well, but I haven't needed them yet.

I think the changes so far should be applied since they clarify the explicit 
version resolution code and enable at least some module swapping.  I suspect 
we'll find out soon if more work is needed.



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