[jboss-as7-dev] Branding/Product JAR & Console Impact

In order to make it easier for multiple products (EAP/SOA-P/etc) to consume the same common AS source code, we need to implement a plugability mechanism that allows version numbers, branding skins/themes, logos, etc to be easily replaced (preferably using a single jar). The mechanism would involve supplying some kind of an argument to the bootstrap. For example: java -jar \"$JBOSS_HOME/jboss-modules.jar\" \ <snip> org.jboss.as.standalone -Djboss.brand.module=org.jboss.as.project-brand We would then provide some API to get the module so that it can be used to launch services and/or perform resource loading. The most complex piece is probably the console branding. I haven't looked in detail at the static console layout. Are things separated enough that we can easily redefine images, text etc for branding? Ideally we would break anything that would be replaced into a separate console/branding/foo.jpg|html resource. Then the server can redirect resource requests with that directory to branding module resource loading. -- Jason T. Greene JBoss AS Lead / EAP Platform Architect JBoss, a division of Red Hat