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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

Chapter 5. Adding Connectors

We had a look at how to define conditions, transitions, and contingencies in the previous chapter. These features allowed us to modify the existing steps and web forms according to our needs. Here we will introduce the connectors available in Bonita. Connectors, as the name suggests, are used to get data in and out of Bonita via various means. We also have the ability to send e-mails, make calendar appointments, and so on, via connectors. Bonita Studio has a lot of connectors pre-defined and we only have to fill in the various parameters to make them work.

Connectors are a powerful functionality provided by Bonita that makes it easy to integrate with other third-party applications. This is a nifty and useful feature that makes Bonita Open Solution an ideal platform for integrating different data at a single place.