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Bonita Open Solution 5.x Essentials

By : Rohit Bhat
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Bonita Open Solution 5.x Essentials

By: Rohit Bhat

Overview of this book

Creating delightful web-based applications backed by complex business logic and intricate workflows is just one of the many things you can easily achieve by leveraging Bonita Open Solution. It is a highly customizable and efficient tool for business process modeling. Bonita Open Solution is a one-stop solution for developing scalable applications with a nifty user management system and easy deployment. This pragmatic, hands-on guide to developing complex applications is packed with succinct tips and demonstrations of the various aspects of Bonita Open Solution. This book will show you how to make the best use of the Bonita BPM tool, leverage its powerful backend engine, and design business application workflows with ease. By the end of this book, you will be able to develop a complete business process application. Right from designing web forms to integrating business logic to finally deploying the application on a server, this book takes you through the entire development cycle of an application created using Bonita Open Solution. You will learn about modeling business processes in Bonita, creating customizable web forms, and using connectors, contingencies, and transitions to move forward in the workflow. It also highlights the various page flows available, as well as the ease of use of the drag-and-drop, widget-based modular design of Bonita Studio. After developing the application, you will also learn about the various options for deployment, and the different environments on which it can be deployed.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Bonita Open Solution 5.x Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Downloading, installing, and launching Bonita Open Solution


Bonita Open Solution consists of a studio for modelling processes, along with a powerful BPM and workflow engine. It contains an internal file-based database and a web platform for deploying web forms. Bonita Open Solution can be downloaded for Windows, Mac OS X, or any Linux system. You need to have JDK 1.6 for use with Bonita Open Solution 5.10. You can download JDK from the following link:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javasebusiness/downloads/java-archive-downloads-javase6-419409.html

Make sure that you have your JAVA_HOME environment variable set. Bonita Open Solution is a portal where you can download the software, access some tutorials, and engage in discussions on forums. You will often find the forum a useful place for debugging any problem you might be facing.

  1. To install Bonita Open Solution locally, download the BOS-5.10 zip file from the following link: http://www.bonitasoft.com/products/download/other-versions-bos?field_download_version_tid=486.

  2. In this book, we will use the Windows version. Unzip the downloaded file to any target folder.

  3. Launch the application by clicking on the file BonitaStudio.exe.

In this book, we will work with the free Community Edition of Bonita Open Solution. There are other paid versions available, such as the Teamwork, Efficiency, and Performance editions. You can have a look at the differences here:

http://www.bonitasoft.com/products/product-comparison

Now that we have downloaded Bonita Studio, let us get started with it. Here, we will have a look at creating a simple process in Bonita and getting it running.