Monday, February 26, 2007

Workflow/BPM product Bonita v3 released with graphical tools

Bonita v3 has just been released. Bonita is a workflow/BPM project. Major changes for this release include an XPDL-compliant graphical workflow editor; XPDL is a standard process definition language that encourages interoperability between workflows and business processes.

The following tools are now part of Bonita v3:
  • Workflow/BPM Console
    The Workflow Console is a web application which provides a common environment to workflow actors involved in the development, the administration, the monitoring and the execution of workflow processes.
  • XPDL compliant workflow editor
    The ProEd workflow editor is a graphical application which easily allows users to define XPDL compliant workflow processes on top of the Bonita workflow system.
  • Web forms editor (Workflow forms)
    The formEditor application is a web form editor allowing workflow designers to customise workflow web forms. This editor will automatically generate a default xForms files according to the workflow relevant data defined for a particular activity or workflow process. Those files will be accessible from the Workflow Console.
Two different versions of Bonita can be downloaded:
  • Bonita Engine: packaged solution including the workflow engine as well as main workflow services.
  • Bonita Platform: an integrated version of Bonita including the engine + services + the graphical tools
Both are released under the LGPL license.

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2 comments:

Essam said...

hi hossam,
what do you think about it>
what's teh difference between it and process Designer in filenet?
by the way

it's nice blog
where are you working now?

h.o.s.a.m.r.e.d said...

Sorry for late reply.

I don't use Bonita v3 , I post it here for future tracking.

FileNet designer is very powerful designer . it comes as applet.But until P8 V3.5 , it has its own file and notations.and not upplying yet the standards like XPDL or BPMN .