OMG!

It’s Business Process [Eclipse]

Modeling in Bonita Open Solution

Aurélien Pupier R&D Engineer, Studio Project Leader

GMF-Runtime Committer @apupier

EclipseCon , March 25, 2012

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Agenda

Business Process Management (BPM)

BPM Notation 2.0

BPM Solution:

● Bonita Open Solution

● Eclipse power

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BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT

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What is BPM?

Define and Manage “Business processes” i.e. what happens in a sequence of activities

Eclipse IP policy, Checklist for Airplane maintenance, Arrival of a new employee and more

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Why BPM?

Store and share knowledge

Automatize activities

● Speed

● Quality

● Monitoring & Reporting

Continuous improvement

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BPMN 2.0 OMG! How to represent my Business Processes?

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BPMN 2.0

Business Process Model and Notation

For Business users and Developers

BPM specification:

● Graphical notation

● Serialization

● Semantic execution

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BPMN 2.0 – Graphical Notation

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BPMN 2.0 - Serialization

BPMN DI (Diagram Interchange)

XSD/CMOF

Key motivation from 1.x to 2.0

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BPMN 2.0 – Semantic execution

Textually defined

Key motivation from 1.x to 2.0

BPM SOLUTION BOS, A complete open-source solution to handle BPM

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BPM Solution

Software to design and execute BP

Bonita Open Solution:

● Engine

● User Experience

● Forms

● Studio

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BOS - Engine

Execute Business Processes

APIs:

● EJB2

● EJB3

● REST

● Java local

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BOS – User Experience

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BOS – Forms

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BOS – Studio

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BOS - Studio

Eclipse RCP

Leverage several Eclipse technologies

2 Eclipse Committers

“Best Modeling Product”

BPMN 2.0:

● Graphical Notation

● Import/Export

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BOS Studio – GMF

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BOS Studio - Jetty

Programmatic hot deploy

“Run” in one-click

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BOS Studio – BIRT (1/2)

Simulation – Generates Report

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BOS Studio – BIRT (2/2)

Reporting – BIRT Editor embedded

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BOS Studio – Greclipse

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BOS Studio - SVN

Automatic commit

Automatic commit message

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BOS Studio – and more

JDT – connectors to interact with third-parties

WTP – edit xml files

Datatools – configure Database connectors

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Keep in mind

Processes are everywhere

BOS - relying on BPMN2 and Eclipse - is your friend

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To go further

OMG website: http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/

Bonita Community: http://www.bonitasoft.org

“BPMN Method and Style” by Bruce Silver

Will love to exchange ideas with you

aurelien.pupier@bonitasoft.com

Twitter: @apupier

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