Fresh news about Bonita BPM Community - October 2013

Dear Community, I did a first "Fresh news..." at the beginning of September, and at Bonitasoft, we think that it is good to continue every month. So, what's new?

On the blog

We've finished Part 2 of our Trello example. On the forum, it helped some of you solve some issues. It touches many useful points: how to build a connector in Bonita BPM Studio; how to retrieve data of previous cases and use them in a new started case; how to handle some JSON taken from a third party API, transform it in CSV and display data in a form. And, it uses a sub-process. So, actually, it's a very complete use case, and I hope it will continue to help you with process development in Bonita Studio. (Note: it's available on GitHub.)

On the forum, we had many questions about look'n'feel customization for Bonita BPM Portal and forms. I will take the answers and create a How-to about that, to come in a few weeks. You can already download an example of an automatic confirmation page!

And some of you are eager to learn how to embed the Bonita BPM Engine in a third party Java application. We'll explain how to do that on the blog soon. By the way, this will be the subject of one of our two talks at OW2 Con 2013. More news to come on that too.

About Bonita BPM

You might have noticed that we have maintenance releases. This time, there are two updates:

• Bonita BPM 6.0.4 is available, and you can see the release note here.
• Bonita Open Source 5.9.2 is available. The purpose of this release is to ease the migration from previous release, up to 5.10.x. It means you don't need to install it now if you don't plan to migrate soon.

I am proud to announce that the first important contribution to Bonita BPM 6 will be included by Bonitasoft: thanks to Akira Iwata we will distribute our Studio and bundles with the Japanese translation. He will be credited in the "About" of Bonita BPM Studio. If you too want to translate Bonita BPM 6 in your native language, please join our project on Crowdin, I will welcome you with enthusiasm!

Have Fun!

I told you in the last Fresh News I am working on a game, for it could be a good way to learn how to use Bonita BPM Studio. This is still a work in progress, however, I can show you a part of the diagram in a screenshot I did for the forum this week. You might notice that this is not at all BPMN2 compliant. Yes, of course, it isn't - indeed, it is not a business application, it is a game ;-)

New coffee machine!!!

Oh, I nearly forget the most important news of this article. You know how coffee is important for Java developers. At Grenoble, we know have a brand new Jura coffee machine. And it really does a darn good coffee. Below is a picture of some of our team, following the instructions of the installer, and a picture of this beautiful machine.