[Hawkular-dev] hawkular java agent to be merged / released

[John Mazzitelli]

BTW: there is a third thing that is possible, whether anyone wants to do this or not I dunno, but its there:

You can embed an agent directly in your own Java app via:

java.io.File configFile = new File("my-config.yaml");
new org.hawkular.agent.javaagent.JavaAgentEngine(configFile).startHawkularAgent();

----- Original Message -----
> FYI: I am going to merge the PR that introduces the javaagent and then I will
> release a new agent from that new master branch.
> 
> Just to be clear, here is what will then be supported:
> 
> 1) The Hawkular WildFly Agent (HWFA) remains as-is. Nothing changes. The
> agent you've come to love and enjoy doesn't change.
> 
> 2) There is a new Java Agent (HJA) that you can run in any JVM (including but
> not limited to EAP-based projects). You do so by passing in a "-javaagent"
> command line option to your JVM (e.g. java
> -javaagent=hawkular-javaagent.jar=config=config.yaml -jar my-app.jar
> ...yadda...). There are two additional properties you must set in
> standalone.conf if you want to run it inside an EAP JVM. The README will
> have the details.
> 
> This new HJA is configured with a yaml file that largely mimics all the
> standalone.xml data that HWFA has. There is no ${x} support in the YAML file
> right now.
> 
> This new HJA can talk to any EAP or WildFly server over the DMR management
> API. It can do deployments to your EAP/WildFly servers and monitoring of
> EAP/WildFly subsystems just like HWFA can.
> 
> This new HJA can talk to any JMX server just like HWFA can (it will talk to
> the local MBeanServer or, if remotely monitoring a JMX server, it will talk
> to it over Jolokia/REST API).
> 
> This new HJA can NOT run directly inside of a Host Controller due to
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-2526 - however, you can run HJA
> externally in its own JVM (e.g. java -jar hawkular-javaagent.jar
> config=config.yaml) and have its config.yaml point to a remote Host
> Controller and you'll get the same functionality.
> 
> --John Mazz