[keycloak-user] Component Model for mere mortals

(i.e. for non-Redhat guys who develop Keycloak extensions themselves) Hi, I'm trying to get a better understanding of what the Keycloak component model is and whether it will suit my particular use case. Is it true that components: - are associated with providers; - have lifecycle independent of that of the associated provider (i.e. neither a component automatically instantiates a provider, nor vice versa); - allow providers to persist arbitrary configuration in the form of String-valued MultivaluedHashmap; - allow providers to establish parent-child relationship; - are bound to realms? Now for the use case; imagine there are several providers (e.g. EntityProvider + RealmResourceProvider + Authenticator), and they all should share a *global*, singleton config (i.e. not bound to any realm). Can I achieve this with components? Will setting realm to null work? Using master realm doesn't seem to be a good idea, since, according to Stian, there were plans to deprecate and get rid of master realm (is that still the case?) If components are not the way to go, how else could I implement global, runtime-modifiable and GUI-editable config? Obviously I could introduce another custom JPA entity for that, but I'd like to avoid literally "multiplying entities without necessity" (C). Thanks in advance, Dmitry