[ https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/TEIID-143?page=com.atlassian.jira.plug... ] Ramesh Reddy commented on TEIID-143: ------------------------------------ Or simply you could use DNA(http://jboss.org/dna), that will do the version of the jar. That may be the direction in the future. I want ask the basic question is how important is to support the connectors though extension modules? Is it a common practise in customer sites that they apply a patches to currently running server, instead of in a maintenance window? if we do not support connector jars in extension modules, and only support them as the physical resources on the disk, does that impact the support? The advantage here is, none of the third party jars needed by a connector need to be defined as extension modules, thus not exposed to to whole system. The more I think about this, these need to be OSGI (http://www.osgi.org/Main/HomePage) bundles. Java 7 is also introducing a module system (JSR 294, http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=294), however this at least a year away. OSGI helps us with the designer too, as finally connector bundles could be seen as the sources, and UI can built around in addition to that bundle. Also, tooling for this good in eclipse. The cons is more work in Teiid to make it support OSGI. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira