Bonita Open Solution 5.1.1 is released. This maintenance release fixes bugs reported in the community forums. You can see the changelog here. Thanks for your help.

- 0001206: [studio-repository] Keep the path of the last resource
- 0001247: [console-appli] History of attachments is not available in terminated steps
- 0001216: [studio-tools] Use value of enumeration when choosing a litteral value in Groovy Editor
- 0001238: [console-appli] Mixed text+groovy expressions values in forms data fields are not interpreted
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Hot deployment – which consists in deploying an application without stopping the application server – can save a lot of time and of course, avoid interruption of service.

You may already know it, but Bonita Open Solution embeds Jetty when it comes to deploying your process-driven application. I tried to programmatically hot deploy an application with Jetty a few days ago but unfortunately didn’t find any documentation on how to do this. After a lot of trial and error, I finally did it! I was mainly inspired from the depths of a mailing-list archive (BTW when will we have a Jetty forum?). Here is the results of my research…

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As you may know, process based applications generated with Bonita Open Solution Studio and Bonita Open Solution User Experience use Bonita Runtime. Bonita Runtime is an open source BPM engine written in Java. It is a very powerful and lightweight library that allows you to define, deploy, execute and manage your processes.

If you don’t want to leverage the existing interfaces of the process based applications and User Experience to interact with the Bonita Runtime and prefer to do it the hard way to and implement your own application and interfaces directly, this series of articles will give you basic knowledge to get started quickly.

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As you may know, process based applications generated with Bonita Open Solution Studio and Bonita Open Solution User Experience use Bonita Runtime. Bonita Runtime is an open source BPM engine written in Java. It is a very powerful and lightweight library that allows you to define, deploy, execute and manage your processes.

If you don’t want to leverage the existing interfaces of the process based applications and User Experience to interact with the Bonita Runtime and prefer to do it the hard way to and implement your own application and interfaces directly, this series of articles will give you basic knowledge to get started quickly.
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Charles and I were at EclipseCon last week. It was an incredible opportunity to learn things and meet a lot of people. Here is the summary of our conference.

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As you may know, process based applications generated with Bonita Open Solution Studio and Bonita Open Solution User Experience use Bonita Runtime. Bonita Runtime is an open source BPM engine written in Java. It is a very powerful and lightweight library that allows you to define, deploy, execute and manage your processes.

If you don’t want to leverage the existing interfaces of the process based applications and User Experience to interact with the Bonita Runtime and prefer to do it the hard way to and implement your own application and interfaces directly, this series of articles will give you basic knowledge to get started quickly.
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