[Hawkular-dev] Console project structure and plugins

[Viliam Rockai]

Hey All,

I want to start this thread to gather some information about how
components are shared between projects. So, to make the terminology
clear, lets check this stuff:
https://github.com/vrockai/hawkular/tree/master/ui/console/alerts
https://github.com/vrockai/hawkular/tree/master/ui/console/metrics

are future components/widgets which are going to be used on the console
page. Those components are Hawtio 2.x plugins.

According to:
https://github.com/hawtio/hawtio/blob/master/docs/Overview2dotX.md

I expect exposing plugins as bower packages is the preferred way in
Hawtio 2.x. From my perspective (angular guy) this is pretty much what
is expected. The only way to expose/share those components as bower
packages to third-parties would be to put them in separate repo. As was
already said on IRC, this may be overkill. I see two ways of resolution:

1. Create separate repository for each component. Those all would be
bower dependencies of the hawkular console.
Pros: possibly consistent with the Hawtio 2.x ways, modularity = we
download only what we need. 
Cons: lots of repositories to take care of.

2. Create a single repository for all the plugins. The whole library of
sibling components, similar to i.e. Angular-UI. 
Pros: easier maintenance. 
Cons: less modular = need to download whole library before we filter
which plugins we want to use.

I see, that the 2nd approach already exists in the hawtio repository,
probably the best way would be to put our components to this repo:
https://github.com/hawtio/hawtio-ui

Thanks for your thoughts,

Viliam