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Bonita Open Solution and Activiti

cutout33 — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:18:11 GMT

Hello all,I just came across BOS on http://www.talend.com/products/bpm and it looks really cool, and with all respect I thought it might be esier than the eclipse designer for activiti, so my question is can I deploy the processes designed using BOS on activiti and use them or I'll get into trouble!

Re: Bonita Open Solution and Activiti

jbarrez — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 06:26:29 GMT

If they produce compliant BPMN 2.0, you will be able to run it on Activiti. That's what BPMN 2.0 is all about!

But if you'd ask me, i would give the Activiti Designer a shot. It's pretty good, actually (but I'm biased) 😉

Re: Bonita Open Solution and Activiti

cutout33 — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:50:58 GMT

It does generate a bar file and zctiviti accepts it, but am unable to see the process after wards, on the other hand it also can export to BPMN but the import fails!

What activiti designer are you refering to, can you give me link please?

couple of notes, I am not able to add attachment and I did not get notified when you replied to the thread!

Re: Bonita Open Solution and Activiti

jbarrez — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:22:15 GMT

Activiti understands bpmn 2.0 xml. Check what is in the bar file.

Activiti Designer: see http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#activitiDesigner

Yeah, the attachment thingy is a know problem with this forum :s

Re: Bonita Open Solution and Activiti

nommyravian — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:54:28 GMT

Hi,

so my question is can I deploy the processes designed using BOS on activiti and use them or I'll get into trouble!

I've already tried it. It isn't possible right now because .bar file generated by BOS is different. See the link for more detail (generated scenario for feature request) http://www.bonitasoft.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=9376

best regards,
Salman

Re: Bonita Open Solution and Activiti

moby — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:28:40 GMT

Hi,
Attempting to play with Activiti and to import some BPMN 2 files. I've been using BonitaSoft (BOS) and it works fine. I can export BPMN2 files from BOS and Yaoqiang happily ingests them however Activiti will not import either the export from BOS or anything from Yaogiang. All I get is a red warning box with null inside! Not very useful!
As Activity will not import anything at all I suspect I've done something stupid but am at a loss as to what to do next.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Cheers
David

Re: Bonita Open Solution and Activiti

moby — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:29:21 GMT

Re: Bonita Open Solution and Activiti

trademak — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:06:15 GMT

Hi David,

We did quite of bit of testing with Yaoqiang and that was working fine. So can you add more details about the process you are testing with? Can you include the BPMN 2.0 XML?

Thanks,

Re: Bonita Open Solution and Activiti

ronnybr — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:46:23 GMT

I recently compared several BPMN-modelling tools and the interoperability is in general not the best.
But I only tried with the .xml or .bpmn files and not with .bar

Maybe my results will help, you can find them here https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6fecPw2wyR9RWJVdy1aNHZsb2s/edit?usp=sharing

Re: Bonita Open Solution and Activiti

moby — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 20:39:37 GMT

Apologies for delay - don't seem to receive any email alerts….

Attached 2 simple BPMN files - neither acceptable by Activiti. The first from Bonitasoft; the second the first file read in by Yaoqiang and exported. Added .txt etc to get them to upload.

David

Re: Bonita Open Solution and Activiti

trademak — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:20:08 GMT

Both files contain faulty BPMN content. The _02 file is the worst because it only contains BPMN DI information and no BPMN elements. The _01 file is pretty much ok, it only misses the DI information for the pools. I just added code to the Activiti Designer that calculates the pool DI based on the lane DI information, so it can be imported now.

Best regards,

Re: Bonita Open Solution and Activiti

moby — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:54:43 GMT

Many thanks will try again.