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Embed Bonita (a workflow tool) in Alfresco

lianjian1111 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:32:18 GMT

Hello all,I see that jbpm is embedded or it's possible to embed it in Alfresco.Is it possible to embed another workflow tool in Alfresco such as Bonita?If so, how can I do that?Thanks for your helps.

Re: Embed Bonita (a workflow tool) in Alfresco

mrogers — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:53:48 GMT

Bonita claims to have a "connector" for Alfresco. I'd investigate that first.

Integrating a workflow engine within alfresco is a major piece of work. Currently JBPM and Activiti are integrated.

Re: Embed Bonita (a workflow tool) in Alfresco

lianjian1111 — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:46:06 GMT

I think I will use rest API in alfresco to call a server with Bonita.
Is there a topic or a paper that explains how to use rest in alfresco?

Re: Embed Bonita (a workflow tool) in Alfresco

mrogers — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:17:48 GMT

If Bonita has any remote api you can use then you could drive Bonita from alfresco add and delete policies. That's a fairly horrible idea though since you are directly tying alfresco's create and delete to a remote system (which may not be there, or may be slow).

It would be far better to have some sort of queue, however you need to explore your requirements for consistency.
Another way of working is to use the audit log in alfresco.

Re: Embed Bonita (a workflow tool) in Alfresco

lianjian1111 — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 12:30:17 GMT

thanks for your helps

Re: Embed Bonita (a workflow tool) in Alfresco

darkmangel — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:29:03 GMT

A good idea would be to use talend ESB http://talend.com/.
Talend is an open source integration plateform that have both alfresco and bonita connectors.
You could use it to perform tasks execution and publish the job as webservice.
And in your alfresco acess this webservice.
There is a good idea to embded bonitasoft in alfresco. Kip us informed.
Thanks