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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

Types of connectors in Bonita


Click on any step, navigate to the Connectors tab and click on Add.... We are greeted with a huge list of connectors. The connectors bundled under the Bonita category are related to the workflow itself. We can modify various steps and variables of the workflow using these connectors. The database connectors are already configured for most of the famous databases in use and they only need connection parameters to connect to the databases. We can execute SQL queries and modify the result set using these database connectors. We also have Drools connectors that make use of the Drools engine to execute custom-defined rules. In addition, we have some connectors for calendar and events, and integration with LDAP, SAP, Salesforce, and other popular web services. There's also a connector for executing a Java class and another for sending an e-mail through the workflow. We have a couple of connectors for scripting purposes, too.

We will look at some of these connectors...