BPM with Bonita Open Solution

BPM with Bonita Open Solution

Elias Ricken de Medeiros

@dfjug, July 14th, 2011

Agenda
● What is BPM? Why is this useful?
● What does a BPMS provide?
● What is BPMN?
●
From the process to the application
● What is Bonita Open Solution?
● How to model a process?
● How to generate a web application?
● Under the hood
●
How to develop connectors?
● Use the execution engine's API

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Agenda
● What is BPMN?
●
● How generate a web application?
● Under the hood
●


A business process is...
● a collection of related, structured activities or
tasks that produce a specific service or product
and have to be executed in a specific sequence.
● It often can be visualized
with a flowchart as a
sequence of activities.


Processes are everywhere...
●
Marketing and sales
●
Customer relations
●
Human resources
●
Communications
●
Internal policies and procedures
●
Manufacturing
●
R&D


Business Process Management
(BPM) is…

a set of tools and methodologies

to model, automate,
monitor and optimize

the processes of an organization


Process lifecycle: continuous
improvement


Many applications are process
based
●
BPM should be everywhere in any type of
company
●
BUT ….
It is not the case today
Many processes are hard coded


Why ?
●
Because BPM solutions are historically complex to
implement and very expensive
➔
So there are exclusively used by wealthiest companies
for mission critical projects
●
Because it can be tempting to hard code the
processes


Agenda
● What is BPMN?
●
● Under the hood
●


A Business Process Management
System (BPMS) is…

a set of software tools

to implement Business Process Management

in an organization


BPMS
●
Set of tools to go from Business Process Modeling to
Business Process execution and monitoring.

●
Can include extra BPM features such as process
simulation, or application generation.

●
Helps transforming business logic into something that
can be executed


BPMS and agility
●
By uncoupling business logic from technical issues, a
BPMS brings agility to your business.

●
Modify a process =
edit a diagram + redeploy a file

●
Improving business processes is transparent for people
affected by these processes.


BPMS and continuous improvement

●
Open the doors towards monitoring, reporting, business
intelligence, simulation...


Agenda
● What is BPMN?
●
● Under the hood
●


Business Process Modeling
Notation (BPMN) is…
● A standardized graphical notation for modeling business
processes
● BPMN 2.0 standard released in January 2011
● proposed by the Object Management Group
● contains standard graphical elements
● uses standard semantics
● identifies standard execution


BPMN samples

BPMN defines...


BPMN samples


Agenda
● What is BPMN?
●
● Under the hood
●


BPM (for business users)
●
BPM answer to questions such as:
●
“And now, what do I have to do?”
●
“How am I expected to do that?”
●
“What is going on with the things I was involved in?”

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


Process based web applications

Software Main steps

Process design

BPM Solution
Information System Connectivity

Web framework Web Application development


How to develop a process based
web application ?
Web Application
PageFlow and GUI

BPM Interface

BPM API

BPM Execution Engine


What are the benefits ?
●
Business logic is externalized in a process
●
The BPM solution will manage the life cycle of
the process as well as human and system
interactions
●
Only 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


Generic graphical interface for
processes
BPM Portal
Process 1 Process 2 Process n

BPM API

BPM Execution Engine


Agenda
● What is BPMN?
●
● Under the hood
●


Bonita in a nutshell

2001 – 2003: v1

2003-2009: Bonita v2, v3 and v4

Since 2009: Bonita Open Solution 5...


Bonita Open Solution
●
Version 5.5.1 available since June 30th

●
Very active community (3500+ members)
●
500.000 downloads since the creation of the project
●
Best Modeling Tool 2011
●
GPL license for the studio
●
LGPL for the execution engine and the web applications

●
http://www.bonitasoft.com/products/BPM_download.php


What is Bonita Open Solution?

Bonita Studio Bonita User Experience
draw and connect run your application manage your processes

Bonita Execution Engine


What is Bonita Open Solution?
●
Bonita Studio
●
model processes
●
connect processes to external information systems
●
design end-user forms
●
Bonita User Experience
●
provides end-user interface for interaction with process
●
allows administrator management of process
●
stand-alone applications
●
Bonita Execution Engine

Architecture: big picture
Users
3rd Party
Information
C System
Bonita Bonita User
Your App O
Applications Experience N Mail
N
E DB
C
Bonita Engine T LDAP
O
R
S …

DB


Agenda
● What is BPMN?
●
● Under the hood
●


Demo
Process modeling


Demo
Run


Agenda
● What is BPMN?
●
● Under the hood
●


Demo
Customize your end user's forms


Demo
Generate an application from your process


Demo
User Experience – as easy as email


Agenda
● What is BPMN?
●
● Under the hood
●


Runtime Architecture
Users

App1 App2 User Experience

BAM Users Tasks Process
Forms server BI Management management Management

API
Process engine 3rd
Party
Services container Connectors
Transaction Journal History LDR Identity …


BOS Engine
●
Bonita execution Engine can be embedded in
your applications

●
bonita-server and bonita-client are available as
Maven artifacts on repositories

●
It is distributed under LGPL v2.


BOS Engine
●
The engine is basically an API to manipulate
processes. (create, instantiate, execute, delete)

●
It deals with persistence of process definitions
and instances, and with execution of the flow.

●
is used for ORM


BOS Engine
●
BOS Engine can be accessed locally or remotely with
Java, using the same code

Local Remote
Java Client
Application Server
EJB
JAXRS
bonita-client.jar

HTTP Client
bonita-server.jar bonita-server.jar HTTP (PHP, Python...)


Bonita Studio


Bonita Studio
● Is an Eclipse RCP application. It contains the core of Eclipse,
some other Eclipse projects, and a lot of Bonita specific
plugins.

●

● Relies on Bonita engine for export.
● Imports process in BAR(Bonita archive), BPMN 2, XPDL 1
and jBPM 3
● Exports process in BAR and BMPN 2

User XP
●
Is based on GWT

●
Provides a modular UI easy to customize

●
Supports BIRT and JasperReports


Process applications
●
The studio exports a forms.xml file that describes the
form.

●
The process application reads this forms.xml build the
form model and render it on the page, using GWT.

●
The UI can be customized using HTML templates


Agenda
● What is BPMN?
●
● Under the hood
●


Demo
Connect

There is a connector for that...

Agenda
● What is BPMN?
●
● Under the hood
●


BOS Engine: the API
● ManagementAPI
● Operations related to process installation/removal, resources management.
● e.g. deploy(businessArchive), deleteProcess(processUUID), addMetadata(key, value)
● QueryDefinitionAPI
● Query operations related to the ‘Definition’ object model.
● e.g. getProcesses(), getProcess(processUUID), getProcessActivities(processUUID,
activityName)
● RuntimeAPI
● Modification operations related to the ‘Runtime’ object model.
● e.g. executeTask(taskUUID), assignTask(taskUUID, userId),
instantiateProcess(processUUID)
● QueryRuntimeAPI
● Query operations related to the ‘Runtime’ object model.
● e.g. getProcessInstances(), getTaskList(taskState), getVariable(activityInstanceUUID,
variableName)


BOS Engine: the API
● RepairAPI
● Advanced administration operations to handle executing process instances that may
be off nominal
● e.g. stopExecution(processInstanceUUID, activityName)
● CommandAPI
● Operations to execute commands available in a given process or in the overall engine
● e.g. execute(command, processUUID), execute(command)
● IdentityAPI
● Operations related to the embedded user module
● e.g. addUser(userName, password), addRole(roleName), getUsers()
● BAMAPI
● Query operations to retrieve statistics from the runtime data
● e.g. getNumberOfOverdueSteps(), getNumberOfOpenStepsPerDay(startDate)


BOS Engine: the API

http://www.bonitasoft.org/blog/tutorial/building-your-applications-with-bonita-runtime-part-1/


Product development -
Roadmap & Tracking
●
Bonita Open Solution development follows
Scrum methodology:
●
Sprints & Roadmap
●
Rigorous usage of a tracker
●
Backlogs & Burn-down chart


Product development -
Continuous Integration

●
~2300 tests for each platform


Questions?


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