The Bonita Community Team is currently working hard to finish a collaborative tool to share Bonita Open Solution Extensions: “Contributions”. The technical part is ready – we are focusing our work on the web design in order to provide an easy-to-use tool.  You have ideas, you want to share your connectors, your process examples…”Contributions” is for you!

This week, some discussions about twitter mashups with Bonita Open Solution started on twitter, the Community forum and Skype!!!  Everyone is asking me:  “What can I do with Twitter in Bonita Open Solution? I have some ideas but is it easy to implement?” My answer is: “yes it’s easy”. Thanks to the Twitter java api: Twitter4j, Twitter connectors are very easy to develop. The only limitation is due to the fact that M5 doesn’t yet support java types. With M5 you can develop your connectors quickly, but it’s hard to use complex data returned by these connectors (example: a list of tweets). A video to show how to develop a connector will be available very soon. If you have specific needs for Twitter (or any other connector), check this discussion: Integrating with Twitter – exploratory thoughts

Presenting the BonitaSoft mug. Coffee, tea, chicken soup? This mug is able to support all tastes. We’re giving them away and we need your help.
They are destined for the best connector coding submissions.
Send yours in by 20 December and use your new mug for the new year.
Contact rlg via the open source business process management community.

The holidays are coming, BonitaSoft decorates the tree:

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Very good news. Bonita Open Solution v5 Milestone 5 is available to download; test it! Now there is a trilogy – 3 killer features to rule the world. We’ve made Bonita Open Solution more powerful to use: you’ll be glad to see the connector wizard, the forms editor and the groovy editor.

This week, we received a great contribution: a video from a Spanish community member that shows the end-to-end flow design of an insurance claim process.

We are starting to experiment with different kinds of business processes using Bonita Open Solution. We welcome any contributions (even from our own developers). This week we have one: Buy a Mini Cooper with Bonita Open Solution.

Presenting the BonitaSoft mug. Coffee, tea, chicken soup? This mug is able to support all tastes. We’re giving them away and we need your help.
They are destined for the best connector coding submissions.
Send yours in by 20 December and use your new mug for the new year.
Contact rlg via the open source business process management community.
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Do you know the MINI Cooper series? It’s a zippy little car and Mickey loves it. She decided to share an application to design and buy your own MINI. Of course, this process was designed with the Milestone 5 version of Bonita Open Solution 5. Try it yourself! Read the rest of this entry »

A new huge step towards the final release of Bonita Open Solution 5 is now completed: we’ve reached Milestone 5. This M5 version comes with a lot of excellent features not found in the Preview version. If you’ve already read “Behind the Scenes with Bonita,” you know that we’ve added 3 great tools in Bonita Studio:

- the connector wizard
- the forms editor
- the groovy editor

In this post I’ll focus on the first. Watch for the following posts on the other features. Read the rest of this entry »