developing web applicatons with bonita

Building applications with Bonita open source BPM

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Miguel Valdés FauraBonita founder and BonitaSoft CEO

Agenda

Business Process ManagementWeb applications developmentProcess based web applications developmentWell, I got it… but how Bonita can help me ?


Life is all about processes…

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Processes and Web Applications

Process are everywhere in organizations:– Personal expenses– Offers validation– Customer claims follow-up– Etc.

BPM is all about giving to the end-user the application that exactly reproduce the way he works whith those processes on a day to day.


90% of applications WW should be process based

BPM should be everywhere in any type of company BUT ….– It is not the case today


Why ?

Because BPM solutions are complex to use and to implementBecause there are very expensiveSo there are exclusively used by wealthiest companies for mission critical projects


BONITA – the BPM game changer

Bonita will change the game by democratizing a fully functional– Easy to use– Easy to implement– Cost efficient

open source BPM solution


Agenda



What is a web application ?

Ability to permanently change data

Users interaction through forms+

“The fundamental purpose of all web applications is to facilitate the completion of one or more tasks.”

+One to one relationship with users


How to develop a web application ?

Process based business logic

+Web framework: Spring, Struts, Tapestry, MyFaces…

Hard-coded business logic

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Agenda



Process based web applications

Process design

Information System Connectivity

Web Application developmentWeb framework

BPM Solution

Software Main steps


How to develop a process based web application ?

BPM Execution Engine

Web ApplicationPageFlow and GUI

BPM API

BPM Interface


What are the benefits ?

Business logic is externalized in a processThe BPM solution will manage the life cycle of the process as well as human and system interactionsOnly link between the web application and the BPM solution is the BPM API


How could we go further ?

Generic graphical interface for processes

Process based web applications generation




BPM Portal

BPM API

Process 1 Process 2 Process n


Process based web applications generation


Web Application 1

BPM API

Web Application 2 Web Application n


Process based applications generation


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Bonita in a nutshell• 2001 : Pioneer on the open

source BPM

• 2008 : V4 release, flexible architecture

• 140.000 downloads : x10 since V4 release

• 300+ active contributors0

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Process based web applications with Bonita

Process design

Information System Connectivity

Web Application developmentWeb framework

Bonita BPM

Software Main steps


Process design


Process connectivity to IS


Web applications generation


Integrated view of processes and applications


More information…

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