Branding the Web Console

Branding the Web Consle mainly concerns hooking into the looks of the Web Console providing vendor-provided setup like

• CSS
• Logo
• Main Title
• Vendor URL

Branding support is currently work in progress tracked by FELIX-1015.

Branding for the Web Console can be provided in two ways: By registering a BrandingPlugin service or by providing a branding properties files. The Web Console uses the branding from the BrandingPlugin service registered with the highest ranking.

The BrandingPlugin interface provides the following information used for branding:

// Returns an indicative name of the branding plugin
String getBrandName();

// Returns the name of the product in which the web console is contained
// and to which the web console is branded.
String getProductName();

// Returns an (absolute) URL to a web site representing the product to
// which the web console is branded.
String getProductURL();

// Returns an absolute path to an image to be rendered as the logo of the
// branding product.
String getProductImage();

// Returns the name of the branding product vendor.
String getVendorName();

// Returns an (absolute) URL to the web site of the branding product
// vendor.
String getVendorURL();

// Returns an absolute path to an image to be rendered as the logo of the
// branding product vendor.
String getVendorImage();

// Returns the absolute path to an icon to be used as the web console
// "favicon".
String getFavIcon();

// Returns the absolute path to a CSS file to be used as the main CSS for
// the basic admin site.
String getMainStyleSheet();

If no BrandingPlugin service is registered, the DefaultBrandingPlugin is used.

The DefaultBrandingPlugin reads the /META-INF/webconsole.properties from the web console bundle to setup the branding using the following properties:

Property Name	Default Value	BrandingPlugin method name
webconsole.product.name	Apache Felix	getProductName()
webconsole.product.url	http://felix.apache.org	getProductURL()
webconsole.product.image	/res/imgs/logo.png	getProductImage()
webconsole.vendor.name	The Apache Software Foundation	getVendorName()
webconsole.vendor.url	http://www.apache.org	getVendorURL()
webconsole.vendor.image	/res/imgs/logo.png	getVendorImage()
webconsole.favicon	/res/imgs/favicon.ico	getFavIcon()
webconsole.stylesheet	/res/ui/webconsole.css	getMainStyleSheet()

Note: The /META-INF/webconsole.properties file is not contained in the Apache Felix Web Console bundle itself. It may be provided by a Fragment Bundle attaching to the Apache Felix Web Console bundle. For an example of such a fragment bundle see prototype Sling Web Console Branding Bundle