In preparation for dynamic clustering support:
- Added Cluster metadata service and metadata store interfaces
- Added a static cluster metadata store implementation that is backed by a local file.
- Consolidated the existing cluster.json and tablets.json metadata files into a single cluster.json file that has all the cluster related metadata.
- Removed dependency on ONOS_NIC env variable.

Change-Id: Ia0a8bb69740caecdcdde71a9408be37c56ae2504
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2015 Open Networking Laboratory
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.onosproject.cluster;
+
+import org.onosproject.event.AbstractEvent;
+
+/**
+ * Describes a cluster metadata event.
+ */
+public class ClusterMetadataEvent extends AbstractEvent<ClusterMetadataEvent.Type, ClusterMetadata> {
+
+    /**
+     * Type of cluster metadata events.
+     */
+    public enum Type {
+        /**
+         * Signifies that the cluster metadata has changed.
+         */
+        METADATA_CHANGED,
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Creates an event of a given type and for the specified metadata and the
+     * current time.
+     *
+     * @param type     cluster metadata event type
+     * @param metadata cluster metadata subject
+     */
+    public ClusterMetadataEvent(Type type, ClusterMetadata metadata) {
+        super(type, metadata);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Creates an event of a given type and for the specified metadata and time.
+     *
+     * @param type     cluster metadata event type
+     * @param metadata cluster metadata subject
+     * @param time     occurrence time
+     */
+    public ClusterMetadataEvent(Type type, ClusterMetadata metadata, long time) {
+        super(type, metadata, time);
+    }
+}