We have just released today a new version of Bonita. This version 4.1.1 is in fact a maintenance version of the latest stable release used in production by a large number of users.

Together with this version, we have decided to include a preview implementation of one of the next major features in Bonita: The BPM connectors.
Connectors are in fact a kind of evolution of one of Bonita well known features: Hooks. While hooks offers a powerful way to call services from processes, connectors adds customization capabilities to improve the way services in your information systems are called from within a BPM process.

Bonita connectors capabilities includes, among others, in/out parameters definition and both static and dynamic validation. Together with this first implementation both email and LDAP connectors implementations are provided.

In next version we will include new connectors implementations. Connectors are currently being integrated in the Bonita BPM Studio, a graphical Eclipse based environment to define processes, including graphical configuration of BPM connectors.

You can download Bonita 4.1.1 at BonitaSoft download page.

Stay tuned…
Miguel