[Hawkular-dev] Hawkular integration

[Gary Brown]

BTW I sent an email yesterday "Hawkular alternative to nest" related to a possible way to test components with bus+accounts.

----- Original Message -----
> Hello,
> 
> We were discussing in the F2F (and I guess it is still an on-going topic)
> about the components integration in hawkular.
> 
> I want to start using accounts with the REST endpoints in alerts and I would
> like to know where all the components are going to live.
> 
> If I am not wrong, I remember two approaches:
> 
> - A big hawkular.ear (with all components inside).
> - A modules approach.
> 
> So, at some point we need to design integration tests to validate that
> components work well with accounts and I guess we need to decide how to do
> that.
> 
> At the moment, I see that components (metrics, alerts) have integration
> tests, I don't have the details for metrics, but for alerts what it uses the
> old nest distribution to put an embedded cassandra + alerts components to
> run the REST endpoints.
> 
> This is useful as JUnit tests are not enough to validate the full scenarios.
> 
> Now I think we need to agree which strategy we need to follow.
> 
> Thomas Heute and others commented (if I am wrong, please correct me) that is
> good to have glue code and integration tests inside hawkular, so hawkular
> project has responsability to put pieces together and validate it is
> correct.
> 
> Gary Brown and others commented (please, if it is not correct, feel free to
> correct me) that glue code should live in the component repo, as it has more
> sense to put our modifications there instead to propagate the change across
> several repo.
> 
> I like the option b) that the glue code lives in the component, but I see the
> benefits of a).
> 
> is there a possibility between something in the middle ? A tradeoff between
> both approaches ?
> 
> So I guess we need to find an agreement, if we need to move code it should be
> done quickly and also we need to test things.
> 
> I don't see how to proper integrate accounts without this topic more clear.
> 
> (I don't remember there is a final decision in the mailing list, please,
> point me to that if I missed it).
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Lucas
> 
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