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.

1. Edit the beans-context.xml file to add a <bean> element for each state. Define:
   • id – name of the state.
   • class – name of the Java class that implements the state.

   For example:

    <bean id="SampleState" class="com.sap.example.SampleState">       
      <property name="country" value="${sample.country}"/>     
    </bean>
   ...
   

2. (Optional) Declare state properties, and assign either constant values or references to the values that are defined in the properties-context.xml file.
   The value of the <country> property is a reference to the <sample.country> property defined in properties-context.xml.