[jboss-as7-dev] Use a module to setup external dependencies for a JMS Bridge?

still working on the JMS bridge... :) The JMS bridge uses JNDI to lookup the JMS resources of external JMS brokers. This means that I must have the client implementation classes of these brokers inside AS7 to instantiate them. More precisely, the JMS Bridge code is located in HornetQ jar, so the external jars must be made available to org.hornetq module. As I don't want to modify this module to be able to configure a JMS bridge, I did a more convoluted thing. There is already a reverse dependency from org.hornetq to org.jboss.as.messaging module (so that HornetQ can instantiate AS7 integration classes). Leveraging this, I added another org.jboss.as.messaging.bridge-integration module that is the placeholder for these external jars. This module is a dependency of org.hornetq through org.jboss.as.messaging. org.jboss.as.messaging.bridge-integration (contains external ^ brokers resources) | | depends-on | | org.jboss.as.messaging --depends-on--> org.hornetq (contains ^ | the JMS Bridge) | | | | | | +---------------------------------------+ reverse dependency so that HornetQ can instantiated AS integration classes It works, I am able to bridge ActiveMQ (I don't have the jars of other brokers to test) to HornetQ with it. It requires to: 1. add ActiveMQ client jars to module/org/jboss/as/messaging/bridge-integration/main 2. add them as <resource-root> to this bridge-integration module.xml wdyt? Is it acceptable to ask users to modify this module for JMS bridge integration? Is there a simpler/better way to achieve this? Am I shooting myself in the foot when I will bridge to an older AS version (haven't tried it yet)? I have now 2 modules (org.jboss.as.messaging and org.jboss.as.messaging.bridge-integration) for the messaging subsystem? Is that OK? thanks, jeff -- Jeff Mesnil JBoss, a division of Red Hat http://jmesnil.net/