Behind the Scenes with Bonita #6 (30 November -> 6 December 2009 )

Very good news. Bonita Open Solution v5 Milestone 5 is available to download; test it! Now there is a trilogy - 3 killer features to rule the world. We’ve made Bonita Open Solution more powerful to use: you’ll be glad to see the connector wizard, the forms editor and the groovy editor.

This week, we received a great contribution: a video from a Spanish community member that shows the end-to-end flow design of an insurance claim process.

We are starting to experiment with different kinds of business processes using Bonita Open Solution. We welcome any contributions (even from our own developers). This week we have one: Buy a Mini Cooper with Bonita Open Solution.

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Development highlights

0000886 SQLServer 0000853 make processes for M5 migration 0000848 Create a test scenario for M% to test migration from M5 to RC1 0000922 Deadlines and variables 0000836 Choose jsp/html for login page and welcome page 0000899 Display the process variables values at instantiation in the case editor 0000893 global settings: enable/disable reporting feature 0000887 Sybase 0000786 support java and xml types 0000942 Support List variable in Groovy Editor 0000936 Add jars takes a long time when imported jard are heavy. 0000914 Dynamic subprocess instantiation 0000862 Auto resize of boxes regarding the text length 0000927 More than a start or a finish task 0000841 Allow to choose date format for widget date 0000797 Connectors on process lifecycle 0000896 manage label view: rename label 0000895 On log in --> the Inbox label should be selected 0000877 LasttaskUser Filter 0000811 Studio totally crashes from times to times... 0000892 display case state in the admin case list 0000938 Bar with a lot of dependencies take a very long time to deploy 0000933 Improve classes/jar management 0000894 Build a todo connector 0000883 Table Widget 0000859 Remove selection on text in activities 0000858 bind data with file when the data is added with add form wizard 0000855 Create builder to refresh connectors when java, xml or properties file is modified 0000850 for list widgets show list values in "default value" combo 0000849 double click on subprocess open the process 0000847 support "now" as default value for a date 0000824 Deactivate zoom on Ctrl+mousewheel 0000844 ProgressMonitor on clic preview 0000912 Wrong task displayed at application login 0000929 Log the NoClassDefFound Errors when a connector's libs are missing at runtime 0000939 Remove the automatic ":" in the forms fields labels

Live from R&D

This week, our tech guys improved the sql resources usage. They hunted down and killed a lot of SQL queries. Now there are fewer of them taking up valuable runtime. We compared version 5 to version 4 and there are currently at least 40% fewer SQL queries and at least 40% faster execution time.

What other useful suggestions do you have to improve Bonita?

Welcome to the open source BPM community

We are pleased to welcome:

viliarde, Marc Olivé, pilot_project, Dander, PabloSR, Alfanet, sergio.salcedo, blocker99, ananta, henryedsl, tantai, johnj, epascal, julio

Not yet a Bonita community member? Join us.

They're blogging about us

Linux Insider : this blog specializes in Linux and open source information from around the world. Read this article about the democratization of BPM.

Are you blogging about Business Process Management and/or Bonita? Tell us in the comments, so we can link it.

They're tweeting about us

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Our hash tags : #bos5 = Bonita Open Solution 5 , #bonitasoft , #bpm = business process management, #workflow , #opensource = Open Source, #oss = Open Source Software, #ow2

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Help us improve Behind the Scenes with Bonita

This is our sixth edition of Behind the Scenes with Bonita. What would you like to see in the next edition?

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