Decouple container and artifact-activation module from core

core-utils/pom.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>org.mule.runtime</groupId>
+        <artifactId>mule</artifactId>
+        <version>4.8.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
+    <artifactId>mule-core-utils</artifactId>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+    <name>Mule Core Utils</name>
+    <description>Mule server and core utilities</description>
+
+    <properties>
+        <javaModuleName>org.mule.runtime.core.utils</javaModuleName>
+        <!-- because this module requires transitive jakarta.jms.api -->
+        <revapi.checkDependencies>true</revapi.checkDependencies>
+        <formatterConfigPath>../formatter.xml</formatterConfigPath>
+    </properties>
+
+    <!--
+        group/artifact id only, version and exclusions are specified
+        via dependency management
+    -->
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.mule.runtime</groupId>
+            <artifactId>mule-api</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+            <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>junit</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
+            <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hamcrest</artifactId>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.qameta.allure</groupId>
+            <artifactId>allure-junit4</artifactId>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.mule.tests</groupId>
+            <artifactId>mule-tests-allure</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+     </dependencies>
+</project>

core-utils/src/main/java/module-info.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2023 Salesforce, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ * The software in this package is published under the terms of the CPAL v1.0
+ * license, a copy of which has been included with this distribution in the
+ * LICENSE.txt file.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Mule server and core utilities.
+ *
+ * @moduleGraph
+ * @since 4.8
+ */
+module org.mule.runtime.core.utils {
+
+  requires org.mule.runtime.api;
+
+  requires com.google.common;
+  requires org.apache.commons.collections4;
+  requires org.apache.commons.io;
+  requires org.apache.commons.lang3;
+
+  exports org.mule.runtime.core.util.api;
+
+  exports org.mule.runtime.core.util.internal to
+      org.mule.runtime.core,
+      org.mule.runtime.container,
+      org.mule.runtime.deployment.model.impl;
+}