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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

Passing the message


Message events are used to pass the data from one pool to the other. The pool variables that we declare inside a pool may be required in some other pool. For this, we use the message passing event, where we basically send a message from one pool to the other. A single message is sent from a pool and the target can receive a single message. This can be useful in synchronizing the two processes.

As data cannot be passed from one pool to another, we achieve this feature using a message passing activity. The data between the throw message and the catch message needs to be mapped so as that it is made available at the target pool.

There are basically two types of message events in Bonita. One is an intermediary throw and catch message which can send data across pools. Another type is the message passing event, that is either a start or an end message. An end message ends the process and sends a message containing the data. A start message catches a message with the data and...