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"Our commitment: to simplify the Workflow development !" Miguel Valdes Faura
Miguel Valdes Faura
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Overview

Bonita is a workflow open source solution for handing long-running, user-oriented processes providing out of the box workflow and BPM functionalities to handle your business processes.

Bonita is compliant to the XPDL workflow standard and is downloadable under the LGPL License.

Preview Bonita v3 Now

Explore the demo and see the Bonita Graphical Workflow environment in action. Those tools are included in the new Bonita v3 release and are fully open source under LGPL license.

Bonita v3, Workflow Made Graphical ! Workflow made graphical

Main benefits

  • Improve the efficiency of collaborative work with Bonita: a team shares a common view of the current tasks, each individual can have real-time awareness about what is going on.
  • Reduce costs and risks by automating person-to-person and system-to-system processes. Processes can span over organizations and geographical locations.
  • Handle efficiently unexpected situations: Bonita allows you to securely and dynamically modify the definition of a running process in order to take into account events that were not planned.
  • Take benefit from several qualities of services that the integration with a J2EE application server provides. These qualities of services include transactions, role-based authentication and life cycle management, connection with external information systems...

Getting started !

A complete walkthrough of Bonita open source workflow solution can be found in the Bonita reference manual, in addition to a "trilogy" of articles published on TheServerSide community:
  • The Bonita article Part one provides everything you'll need to know about getting started with Bonita v2 Series. This article introduces how Bonita leverages the XPDL standard.
  • Article: Bonita v2 series Part Two introduces and describes common use cases and problems when using iterations in a workflow.
  • Bonita, The Trilogy, Part Three steps back and deals with the application layer, demonstrating how to couple a workflow engine (Bonita) and a portal (eXo Java Content Repository).