We could have a separate repository for these plugins... They could be part of our binary distribution (as being consumed), and we could have special CLI options to activate them.
e.g.: ./artemis create /folder --plugin prometheus The prometheus plugin would be only applied if such option was applied. On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 6:54 AM Christopher Shannon <christopher.l.shan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This sounds good to me, I think it would be good to have some way to keep a > collection of plugins that is easy for people to find. I guess they could > either go into a new directory under the current Artemis build and each > have their own sub module/ jar or they could live by themselves in a new > sub project. > > I'm not really sure which approach would be best. Having new sub modules > makes it easy to keep the plugins in sync with the broker but can bloat the > release with things that may not belong in the main release (which is why > we didn't want the Kafka Bridge to be included as part of the main release) > > Having a new sub project could be nice so people can optionally grab > plugins only if they want them and this would allow the plugins could be > updated and released on their own schedule. The main downside I see with > the sub project approach is trying to keep plugins in sync with the broker > version. If we don't end up bundling the plugins with the broker itself > then we need to figure out how to handle compatibility across releases. > > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 10:50 PM Justin Bertram <jbert...@apache.org> wrote: > > > With the impending support for metrics plugins [1] as well as other > > pluggable components which have been discussed in the past (e.g. Kafka > > bridge [2] proposed by Mike Pearce) I think it would great to have an > > official place where these things could be hosted and potentially included > > as part of a broker release. Does anybody have any opinion on this? > > > > > > Justin > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/activemq-artemis/pull/2681 > > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARTEMIS-1478 > > -- Clebert Suconic
