reverted the commit about making lazy vals, vals for nodes
Revert "reverted the commit about making lazy vals, vals for nodes"

This reverts commit e596885e852ffa9f6ea4a1ddb18a199a01328459.
Revert "important change on ids for CompNodes in order to avoid deserialisation issues"

This reverts commit 05a1d15171797dba15407bc7dd31e4863ca349e4.
Revert "fixed the unit tests"

This reverts commit 5219c91b727fbabd9cf862095de34a408f0a9a3e.
Revert "trying to fix the BridgeStore class not found issue"

This reverts commit dd6a22c17046febb1ebd17727f5c975994428f36.