Re: [hibernate-dev] Fwd: Hibernate ORM modules published as major.minor and an alias for main

Hi Scott, I'm not sure I completely understood your email, but from the example it looks like you're having the alias relation in the opposite direction. We would need to have the actual jars into a module which has the precise identifier, to match exactly the jars it contains. Then we'd add an alias to specify that the "main" slot is the specific version. For example: ## Actual Module <module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.3" name="org.hibernate" slot="4.3.8.Final"> <resources> <resource-root path="xyz-4.3.8.Final" /> <.... </resources> ... </module> ## The alias <module-alias xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.3" name="org.hibernate" slot="main" target-name="org.hibernate" target-slot="4.3.8.Final" /> By using this structure you can allow most applications to simply depend on "org.hibernate" at slot "main". This is useful for the majority of users, who know they want to depend on Hibernate and are not too fuzzy about the version they use, or simply want the "recommended" version, which is essentially what you decide is by pulling upgrades into WildFly. But some of our frameworks who might need to depend on a specific version of ORM would have the option to explicitly depend on "org.hibernate" slot "4.3.8.Final", which is what we occasionally need. Also this would make it possible for the ORM project to release "update packs", say a version 4.3.9.Final is released soon: users would be able to drop this into their application server using slot "4.3.9.Final" without risking to break other applications. We could also be a bit more fine-grained: are you still keeping Hibernate 3 around in WildFly 9? If yes, you might want to have a structure like this one: ## Actual Module <module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.3" name="org.hibernate" slot="4.3.8.Final"> <resources> <resource-root path="xyz-4.3.8.Final" /> </resources> ... </module> ## The 4.x alias <module-alias xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.3" name="org.hibernate" slot="4.x" target-name="org.hibernate" target-slot="4.3.8.Final" /> ## The main alias <module-alias xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.3" name="org.hibernate" slot="main" target-name="org.hibernate" target-slot="4.x" /> One could also think of introducing a 4.3.x level.. possibilities are endless but the priority for us would be to be able to call out a specific version. Thanks, Sanne On 14 January 2015 at 17:12, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: