I managed to put together a new release of bedework using galleon feature packs.
It solved a bunch of problems and leads to a much easier install. Even got it to install a copy of apache directory and opensearch for the quickstart.
For anybody who's interested in it as an example the source is at
My next step is to move some of the configuration into wildfly out of xml config files. The examples I've found for that seem out of date with current releases but I haven't looked too deeply yet.