[Hawkular-dev] Should the components depend on the bus ?

[John Mazzitelli]

> We need defined APIs, that may result in common Java classes that e.g.
> describe one metric or a series of metrics for a tenant
> or similar.
>...
> Yes. I don't see this as a shared service/component, but rather part of
> Hawkular-alerts. This may pull in a common java
> class that encodes how a metric looks like (see above).

FWIW: we could base these on the JSON-encoded BasicMessage [1] - Jay has already prototyped his stuff using this, where a "metric" is JSON-encoded (and thus can be handled across any client in any language) but yet is a strongly-typed Java object that can be used.

[1] https://github.com/hawkular/hawkular-bus/blob/master/hawkular-bus-common/src/main/java/org/hawkular/bus/common/BasicMessage.java