Nova Bonita 4.1

Today the development team of the Bonita open source workflow engine released version 4.1 of the platform, including changes to the runtime engine, the process editor and the management console.

This new version has lots of bug fixes and new features. Among them:

• The documentation was restructured in 2 different documents a Quick Start guide (like in Bonita 4.0.1) and a Cookbook that includes the information of the other three documents of the previous version (Console Guide, Development Guide and Reference Guide). This eliminates the existing duplication of concepts between the different documents.
• The create project wizard in the Eclipse process designer (ProEd) was improved to allow the creation of an XPDL file directly from there (if the user wishes to do so), rather than having to create the project and then going to create the file. Additionally, the default transition from the start to end activities was removed.
• The Bonita Runtime environment.xml and environment-xml-history.xml files were merged into a new bonita-environment.xml file.
• Join XOR operations and asynchronous activities (with some limitations) are supported by the engine and the process editor.
• Additionally, several bugs were fixed and the APIs were improved in several areas.

This is not the full list of improvements, but the ones I was more interested on. For the full list, please check the release notes. You can download Nova Bonita 4.1 from the files section of the project's forge in OW2.

The next major milestones will be the support for XPDL 2.0 and BPMN. You can check the full list in the project's roadmap page.