Building Custom State Bundles
After you develop custom states, and set up Apache Maven, build OSGi bundles that you can deploy to SMS Builder.
- 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 SMS Builder. - 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. - Declaring States as Spring Beans
Developing a custom-state bundle requires that you declare each state as a Spring Framework bean in the beans-context.xml file. A state is any Java class that either directly or indirectly extends the SmappStatePlugin abstract class. - Configuring Bean Properties
The bean properties file, properties-context.xml, declares all properties that must be retrieved from the OSGi configuration administration service during runtime; properties are stored in the service so they can be configured dynamically at runtime. - Registering States as OSGi Services
To enable SMS Builder to discover states at runtime, register them as OSGi services, by declaring them in the services-context.xml file.