Custom State Bundles

Package custom states as OSGi bundles, which you can deploy to Brand Mobiliser.

An OSGi bundle is a JAR file with extra manifest headers that can be deployed in the OSGi container. A custom-state bundle can contain one or more custom states, and it must be packaged as an OSGi bundle before you can deploy it to Brand Mobiliser.

• Building Custom State Bundles
  After you develop custom states, and set up Apache Maven, build OSGi bundles that you can deploy to Brand Mobiliser.
• Creating Maven Projects
  The main artifacts of a Maven project are the project object model (POM) file, and folders that contain source-code files.
• Customizing Maven POM Files
  Customize a Maven project object model (POM) file to create and build custom-state OSGi bundles to deploy to Brand Mobiliser.
• Creating Maven Project Artifacts
  After you create a Maven project, create project artifacts to use in a custom-state bundle.
• Building Maven Projects
  You can build Maven projects on the command line, or you can use Maven build and unit test projects in an IDE.
• Deploying State Bundles
  To deploy custom-state bundles, make the files available to Brand Mobiliser at runtime, and configure the states to start automatically.
• Configuring State Bundles
  You can configure state bundles in the service.bundle.properties file, where bundle is the name of the state bundle.
• Custom State Bundle Samples
  Many custom-state implementations are based on a service-oriented architecture, in which the custom states consume existing Web services, either SOAP or Representational State Transfer (REST)ful types. States can either get results from one Web service, or they can aggregate results from multiple Web service calls.
• Developing Quick-Start Templates
  You can develop custom states to enhance application capabilities, such as integration with existing enterprise systems or cloud services. To demonstrate functionality, include sample applications in state bundles, which appear in the Brand UI as quick-start templates that you can import into Brand Mobiliser.