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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

Exploring the Tomcat bundle


The TOMCAT_HOME folder has the following folders:

  • bin: This binary folder includes all the executable and binary files, including the dll files necessary for Tomcat to run

  • bonita: This folder contains the configuration files needed for the Bonita application, as well as storage for temporary files and the place where the default file-based database stores its files

  • conf: This folder contains the configuration files for Tomcat as well as the Bonita configuration

  • external: This folder contains the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) configuration files

  • lib: All the JAR files needed by Tomcat, Bonita, and other external applications are present in the lib folder

  • logs: The Tomcat and Bonita logs are present in this folder

  • temp: This folder is used as a temporary folder by Java Virtual Machine (JVM)

  • webapps: All the webapps running on Tomcat are deployed in this directory

  • work: This is a temporary working directory for web applications

The preceding are the main folders of Tomcat. However, we will get into the details of these shortly.