Bonita Open Solution 5.x Essentials.

A practical, intuitive guide for modeling complex business processes as full-scale applications using the ease and power of Bonita Open Solution. If you are a business application developer looking forward to model business processes intuitively in a workflow, with various conditions and transitions then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Java or Groovy is necessary to help you develop these applications. Knowledge of HTML and JavaScript/JQuery will be helpful but not mandatory.

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Installing and Getting Started with Bonita; Downloading, installing, and launching Bonita Open Solution; Creating a process; Creating a human task; The text variable; Running a process; The user inbox; The process history; Labels; Dashboard; The admin view; Summary; Chapter 2: Variable Types and Scope; Pool variables versus step variables; The text variable; The Boolean variable; The integer variable; The float variable; The date variable; The attachment variable.

The Java variableSummary; Chapter 3: Creating and Customizing Web Forms; Input and output widgets in Bonita; Buttons; The Select widget; The Radio widget; The date picker widget; Variables required for the widget elements; The Image widget; The Message widget; The Previous and Next buttons; Summary; Chapter 4: Conditions, Contingencies, and Transitions; Conditional appearance of fields; Contingency; JavaScript alternative to contingency; Defining conditions on transitions; Gates; Passing the message; The call activity; Multi instantiation; Summary; Chapter 5: Adding Connectors.

Types of connectors in BonitaThe Bonita connectors; The e-mail connector; The Drools connector; Database connectors; Groovy scripting; Other connectors; Finalizing the Web form data; Summary; Chapter 6: Configuring the Page Flow; The inbox view; Entry, view, and overview page flow; User XP options from Studio; Process status in User XP; Externalizing forms; Summary; Chapter 7: Customizing Look and Feel; Customizing web forms; Changing Look'n'feel; Adding Resources to the workflow; Application Look'n'feel; User Experience Look'n'feel; Summary; Appendix: Deploying Bonita On a Server.

Downloading the Tomcat BundleExploring the Tomcat bundle; Starting and shutting Tomcat; Customizing database connections; Logfiles; Changing the configuration files; Bonita login page; Bonita API and adding users into the database; Summary; Index.

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