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Bonita Open Solution 5.x Essentials

By : Rohit Bhat
Book Image

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

Gates


Often, we require gates in our process diagrams when we have complex transitions between steps. Gates help to define a variety of transitions, loops, and circuits. Let us have a look at the three different types of gates available in Bonita Studio:

  1. XOR gate: An XOR or exclusive gateway is most commonly used during merging conditions when any of the two or more steps need to be completed for the workflow to move ahead. When there are multiple inputs to an XOR gateway, the process will move to the output of the XOR gateway when any one of the input conditions becomes true. If there are multiple outputs for an XOR gateway, all the transitions will be randomly evaluated one by one and the first true condition will be evaluated and the process will move forward without evaluating the other transitions.

    Figure 4.3: The XOR gateway

  2. AND gate: An AND gate is used in cases when certain activities need to be carried out in parallel. The AND gate is both convergent and divergent. In the case of convergent...