Bonita

Bonita allows you to define variables for each individual activity as well as for the complete workflow.

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You did all this configuration just by using Bonita's graphical workflow and form editors, without writing any Java code.

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Bonita allows you to define groups of actors according to the business roles required in a workflow.

For this reason, every BPM tool has to devise some sort of interfacing mechanism, such as Bonita's connector mechanism.

BPM tools like Bonita have the flexibility to integrate with a variety of applications.

You can see in Figure 3 that the Bonita screen is divided horizontally into two parts, and each part is divided vertically as well.

Bonita's connector framework: The connector framework is Bonita's extensibility mechanism for integrating with outside applications.

The entire application is developed as a business process through Bonita process configuration.

Click Finish, and your room-booking summary report is now fully integrated with Bonita.

Bonita's process engine receives the search keyword and stores it in a process variable.

Bonita automatically placed this button for you while creating the new form.

This is because Bonita knows that now the save to field has the name of a variable for storing the user input.

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Bonita includes a graphical BPMN editor as well as a workflow engine.

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Download, install, and launch Bonita now if you want to follow along with this article's hands-on exercise (see Resources).

Bonita's graphical tool is simple to use, allowing drag and drop from a palette into an editor window called a whiteboard.

Bonita will save the input parameters configurations and will take you back to the earlier Connector creation wizard of Figure 10.

In the Output file path field, specify the location where you want Bonita to save the PDF version of the room-booking summary report.

After the user enters a search keyword and clicks the Search button, control is transferred to Bonita's business process engine.

Do you think the new designer and console in Bonita 4. 0 make it more accessible to business analysts?

Bonita's process engine interfaces seamlessly with SugarCRM to make this possible.

Bonita's process engine populates a process variable with the search results.

Bonita provides three types of buttons: submit, next, and previous.

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The category field helps Bonita to categorize your connectors.

You'll simply use a default actor group named Initiator, already defined in Bonita.

Nova Bonita console: a web 2. 0 graphical interface fostering the user experience during BPM deployment, execution and monitoring phases.

The first target of the Bonita 4. 0 release is developers and technical architects, but analyst tools will follow in subsequent releases.

You used Bonita to start designing a workflow for booking hotel rooms.

Bonita comes bundled with Jetty, a popular open source web server.

In that sense, Bonita 4. 0 comes with an Eclipse plug-in that allows easy development of BPM processes and related Java connectors.

Bonita allows use of custom templates, but for simplicity, this article uses the standard template.

Therefore, developing the search application in Bonita consists of telling Bonita's process engine what it must do at every step.

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InfoQ. Bonita continues to provide strong XPDL support.

Bonita 4. 0 can be downloaded here, and is released under the LGPL license.

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This is how Bonita lets you write dynamic SQL queries that are decided at run time.

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A rules engine can already be plugged to Bonita 4. 0.

Here in Part 1, I'll demonstrate the first task, using Bonita to author the room-booking workflow.

InfoQ: Can you tell us about the new process and package versioning feature in Bonita 4. 0?

BPMN representation of this simple process (which I drew using Bonita's workflow editor) is shown in Figure 1

Implementing a connector in Bonita is mostly a configuration task, which involves a few steps

Affective Study of Non-logic Act In Bonita

How Bonita uses variables in form design

Figure 2 shows Bonita's welcome page, which contains quick links for common tasks such as creating a new process or opening an existing one