Addition of State Management Feature

Patch 1:This commit adds the feature to provide node state management.
There are also a couple of very minor cleanup items in
feature-session-persistence which came up during review and testing.
Patch 2: Cleaned up some logging statements and exceptions per
comments by Pam Dragosh. Patch 3: Clean up per comments from
Jorge Hernandez. Patch4: Added a default to ignoreErrors in
RepositoryAudit. Patch 5: Rebase.  Patch 6: Removed
api-state-management/.gitignore

Issue-ID: POLICY-155
Change-Id: I4fbfa33314d488ff46764931ca965f802b6a26d5
Signed-off-by: Kevin McKiou <km097d@att.com>
diff --git a/api-state-management/pom.xml b/api-state-management/pom.xml
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+<!--
+  ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+  ONAP Policy Engine - Drools PDP
+  ================================================================================
+  Copyright (C) 2017 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+  ================================================================================
+  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.
+  ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+  -->
+
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+         
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.onap.policy.drools-pdp</groupId>
+    <artifactId>drools-pdp</artifactId>
+    <version>1.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+  
+  <artifactId>api-state-management</artifactId>
+  
+  <name>api-state-management</name>
+  <description>Separately loadable module for state management APIe</description>
+
+  <properties>
+          <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
+          <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
+          <swagger.version>1.5.0</swagger.version>
+  </properties>
+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+ 		<!-- none -->
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.onap.policy.drools-pdp</groupId>
+      <artifactId>policy-core</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.onap.policy.common</groupId>
+      <artifactId>integrity-monitor</artifactId>
+      <version>${common-modules.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+   </dependencies>
+</project>