[Hawkular-dev] embedding hawkular-metrics

[Heiko W.Rupp]

> Am 21.01.2015 um 05:17 schrieb John Sanda <jsanda at redhat.com>:
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> One option could be undertow core + json parser. I have not investigated enough to know what if any functionality we get/use from JAX-RS that we might need to implement on our own. We would need a JSON parser.

WildFly has afaik Jackson as mapper in its list of modules.

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> Another option could be netty + json parser. As with undertow, there may be some functionality we currently get/use from JAX-RS that we might need to implement on our own. One potential advantage of netty over undertow is the support for additional protocols. 

So we pull in (yet another version of) netty into WIldFly to workaround its existing Undertow http thingy?

> The Cassandra driver is also built on netty.
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> The last option I have thought about is vert.x 3.0. It looks like the minimum/core runtime dependencies are netty, jackson, log4j, and slf4j. This is pretty slim as well. It gives us higher level APIs  and support for implementing REST endpoints. We also have support for additional protocols since this is built on netty.