I've been talking to Heiko about getting the Hawkular agent to work on Karaf for the Fuse team.    

Currently there's number of JON plugins for Fuse that collect metrics and expose operations through JMX for the components that are being monitored (Karaf, Camel, SwitchYard, CXF, ActiveMQ, Fabric, etc).     There's a few components that are also shipped on top of EAP (Camel, SwitchYard) that would need to be monitored as well, but I think I'd like to get the Karaf portion finished first. 

I'd like to create OSGI bundles for the parts of the hawkular-agent that we need, maybe create a features file for installing the agent, and then figure out a way to get the agent started so we could collect some data.    Could someone help point me in the right direction?    I've got a bunch of questions ..

How does the agent get started on EAP?    

Which parts of hawkular-agent are wildfly-specific?   Which parts would I need for Karaf to get the agent started?

Would it be beneficial to OSGI-enable hawkular-agent by turning the JARs it creates into OSGI bundles?

Does hawkular-agent have a lot of dependencies?    

Thanks for your help in advance - look forward to working with you on this.

Tom