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Bonita Open Solution 5.x Essentials

Bonita Open Solution 5.x Essentials

By : Rohit Bhat
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Bonita Open Solution 5.x Essentials

Bonita Open Solution 5.x Essentials

3.8 (4)
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.
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Bonita Open Solution 5.x Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Index

Customizing database connections


By default, Bonita Open Solution uses the file-based h2 database for its internal operations. Let us look at the places where this is configured and also change the connections to make sure that it uses MySQL instead. This practice will allow us to learn about the configurations files as well as setting up our MySQL server as Bonita's internal database.

In the TOMCAT_HOME folder, open up the conf folder. Here, you will find the Tomcat configuration files as well as the database files for Bonita. Let us now look at the internal database used by Bonita. Open up the file context.xml in any editing tool, such as Sublime Text. In this file, we can see that the default datasource is the one used by the h2 database. Beneath that, there is a commented datasource to be used for MySQL. Let us comment the h2 datasource and uncomment the MySQL datasource. We need to change a few parameters for the MySQL datasource, too.

Tip

The way to comment in an XML file is to include...

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