Dear community,

As the community activity has grown, this week end we migrated the community server. Our new server is really faster, did you notice? If you see some problems now and then, it may be because we’re still working on it.

Last week, we made our first French webcast for our community. This event was really interesting because we had good questions from you. If you missed it, or want to see it again, just follow this link: [fr] Behind the scenes – 19-02-2010.

Another webcast is planned: the English version of  “Behind the Scenes – Meet our Bonita Open Solution Developers” who will introduce some cases studies using Bonita Open Solution and answer your questions. Book your place  February 25th, 2010 at 6PM CET by sending an email to bonitaday@bonitasoft.com.

Program:

• Case study #1: how to integrate Bonita in JBoss
• Case study #2: how to configure Bonita to use your favorite database
• Q&A session with the BonitaSoft R&D team

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During the development of BOS Studio, which is a technology nominee for Eclipse Community Awards, the BonitaSoft R&D team has customized GMF editors.  I will share what we did and show how to apply it yourself.

One way to customize your GMF editor is to modify the XPand templates. GMF provides a convenient way to do it. This post will explain two ways to take advantage of this method. To illustrate, I will show you how to set a custom SelectionManager in the editor. Read the rest of this entry »

Dear community,

Bonita Open Solution 5.0.1 is released. This maintenance release fixes bugs reported in the community forums. You can see the changelog here. Thanks for your help. And Remember, Have fun with Bonita.

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Dear community,

Here is your chance to talk directly to the BonitaSoft developers, live. We will host a webcast, “Behind the Scenes – Meet our Bonita Open Solution Developers” who will introduce some cases studies using Bonita Open Solution and answer your questions.

Dates:

• French webcast: February 19th, 2010 at 10AM CET
• English webcast: February 25th, 2010 at 6PM CET

Program:

• Case study #1: how to integrate Bonita in JBoss
• Case study #2: how to configure Bonita to use your favorite database
• Q&A session with the BonitaSoft R&D team

Approx. duration: 30 minutes

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Dear community,

Bonita Open Solution 5.0 has been nominated for an Eclipse Technology Award in the Best RCP Application category! To support us in the Eclipse community, vote for Bonita Open Solution in the Eclipse marketplace. Help us move from the second top favorite application to first place by logging in and voting.

The winners of the Eclipse Technology Awards will be announced in March during EclipseCon 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

Preamble: This is the first post of the new Eclipse category of BonitaSoft’s community blog. As soon as we find something interesting to talk about when developing Bonita Studio, we will try to share what we learnt with our communities: BonitaSoft and Eclipse. We are also pleased to see this category aggregated to Planet Eclipse knowledge feed. We hope you’ll enjoy reading these posts!
The Bonita Studio developers crew

I found some time recently to take a look at SWTBot to check whether we should use it while developing Bonita Studio (part of Bonita Open Solution, based on Eclipse Gelileo 3.5.1). After a few minutes of reading wiki pages and trying it, I was convinced that SWTBot (and its GEF extension, that also works for GMF) is a must-use project for anyone who has ever it found difficult and time-consuming to write plugin tests.

Only a few hours later our continuous integration build welcomed our first SWTBot based test!

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