Project level variables in OSB

Is there any way we can declare project level variables or global variables that are visible to all the projects in OSB?? If yes,the how can they b used??

OSB is stateless and can not remember variables outside a running process instance.
However you can have a solution similar to global/project level variables if they are static.
What you can do is create an XSL or XQuery with your variables defined as elements in the XML and inside Proxy service if you need to refer to these variables just call that XQuery/XSLT for that element.
A use case where this scenario can be used is for defining log levels. You can have a config XQ for each project and define the value of log level element for each project in that XQuery. Inside a Proxy service just call this XQ and fetch the LogLevel and log accordingly. This is also useful in migrating between dev/test/production environments. You can have different values of LogLevel in the XQ in different environments so that you dont need to change the code in proxy service when you move from one environment to other and also you dont need to change in each and every proxy if you need to change the level of logging.

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