Process Excellence Week (#pexweek), here we come.

BonitaSoft will be present from Jan 16 and ready to demo Bonita Open Solution, answer questions, and chat with all comers about Bonita, BPM, and all things related.

We’ll be pimping* Pimp My Bonita.  The community got the first word, now we’re unveiling it far and wide.

If you happen to be in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA, stop by and say hello to Dwayne McDaniel and Haidar Hadi.  And if you’re there on Wednesday January 18, stop by and say hello to our “Special Guest Celebrity”, Bruce Silver.

Bruce will be there to discuss BPMN and will have on hand a few copies of his most recent book, BPMN Method and Style, 2nd edition. Some of them will go to lucky drawing winners, so be sure to leave us a business card.

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*Yes, yes, YES we know what this word means.  We prefer the Urban Dictionary definition.

Here at BonitaSoft, we like to use video tutorials,  to show you how to create, use and configure Bonita Open Solution including some extra features included in the Subscription Pack.

So we thought you would like to see just what goes into creating a new video for a feature, a sort of behind the scenes peek into our process.
In this contribution, we have included a .bar file ‘How to create a video for the Bonita Documentation System’ which presents an overview of this process.

To see a result of how we apply this process, visit the Bonita Documentation System and take a look at our videos, for example: How to multi-instantiate a task.

See how useful a short and concise video tutorial can be when you need to understand how to use and configure a feature.

As we start on our ambitious startup track for 2012, we’ve done a bit of looking back on 2011. Our progress has been remarkable – and we have a lot to thank our community for.

Here’s a quick reminder of what we are appreciative to you all for:

• 10,000 community members, who have added around 30,000 posts on almost 7000 topics. Among our community we have approximately:
  • 1,300 in the US
  • 1,100 in France
  • 700 in India
  • 500 in Spain
  • 500 in Brazil
  • 400 in Germany
  • 350 in the UK
• 1,000,000 downloads: what else can we say? Thank you for your continuing confidence in Bonita.

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Thanks to your translations much of BOS is available in many languages, including:

• Brazilian Portuguese
• Catalan
• Croatian
• Dutch
• Estonian
• German
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Serbian
• Spanish
• Turkish

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We are also proud to say that we now have more than 40 integrator partners in 20 countries. These partners are certified to deploy BPM projects with BonitaSoft technologies. Some of the more recent partnerships of 2011 include:

• Upcom Ltd, Greece
• Altran – France, France
• ELO Group, Brazil
• Tornado Solutions, Mexico
• I&T servizi Srl, Italy
• BTS Columbia, Columbia
• Ippon Technology, France

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This is a pretty good way to begin the new year. We look forward to bigger and better numbers with you in 2012, especially as we’re anticipating some remodeling work in the community pages as we do a bit of re-organizing.

And speaking of looking forward – check out the community contest Pimp my Bonita – a chance to win the admiration of all and valuable prizes!

In this blog post I suggest a very effective way to spot duplicated libs/classes in your java application. I found and used this tip during the integration phase on an application server – which is quite a common use case.

This tutorial will be very helpful in the following cases:

• NoClassDefFoundError:  there are two different versions of the same class in your classpath.
• Integration with unknown huge products (not osgi-ed):  detect multiple libs with the same version, and so reduce memory footprint.

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Bonita Open Solution version 5.6.1 is available for download – not really news, but hey, it’s a new year!

Usually our minor releases are maintenance releases only, but this time we’ve fixed a bunch of bugs and improved some annoyances to make using Bonita Open Solution just that much more user-friendly.  (And – we’ve made some changes to the database schema that require a migration.  See below.) Read the rest of this entry »

BonitaSoft is happy to invite you to take part in the “Pimp My Bonita” community contest.

Open to all 10,000+ members of the open source BonitaSoft community, the “Pimp My Bonita” contest is intended to showcase the most creative and innovative BPM use cases implementing Bonita Open Solution. The thriving BonitaSoft community already garners hundreds of open source contributions including connectors, example code, and sample applications.

The grand prize for the contest will be the winner’s choice of either U.S. $3,000 or a trip to BonitaSoft’s offices in Paris or San Francisco. Read the rest of this entry »