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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