create a custom connector

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Create a Connector in Bonita BPMVivecca Yong Tim & Sapna Maheswari

Agenda

Why choose Bonita BPM

Connectors: Architecture & Configuration Overview

Demo: how to create a connector to retrieve emails from a mail 

Questions Addressed #BonitaBPM

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Why Bonita BPM?

• 2,000,000 DOWNLOADS

• 60,000 COMMUNITY MEMBERS

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AWARDS

600 customers in 60 countries

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DESIGN.

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Bonita Studio

• BPMN 2.0

• Drag-n-drop application development

• Powerful form builder

• Easy connectivity

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CONNECT.

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… to almost any Information System

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RUN. ...in Bonita Portal...

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& Mobile Desktop

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… or as a standalone application

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Commercial Offerings

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Commercial offeringsWe support your projects and accelerate their success

• Professional Services- Training- Certification in development and administration- Consulting: On-Site or Remote

• Annual Subscriptions - Gold or Platinum Technical Support - Features to facilitate collaboration, speed development,

aid testing, deployment and administration, advanced portal features

Bonita BPM Subscriptions

Team collaboration• Shared repository

• Productivity features

End-User Centric• Advanced Portal

• Mobile

• Process templates

Mission-critical• Monitoring

• Error management

• Live reconfiguration

Subscriptions• Commercial license• Professional Support• Software Upgrades

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Creating a custom connector with Bonita BPM

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Connectivity No process functions in isolation, integration with other systems is an absolute need

High technical expertise needed for such integration

Time intensive activity

Upgrade and maintenance cost

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Bonita BPM Connectors Bonita BPM comes with a suite of connectors for external system integration

Not bundled with proprietary frameworks but provide flexibility to integrate with existing applications in your ecosystem Ability to create your own custom connector

Step by Step widget for ease of configuring these connectors

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Bonita BPM Connector Configuration

Step by Step Connector Wizard

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Connector ArchitectureConnectors are designed with a clear separation between definition and implementation

Definition - comprises of the input parameters and the resulting output

Implementation - Java code to connect with external system interfaces

External System

Java code(Implementation)

Inputs Outputs

Connector Definition

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Upgrading a connector implementationBonita BPM 6 provides the ability to modify a connector implementation and update it on a deployed process

Eliminates the need for a new deployment

Minimizes effort needed to keep up to date with external interface changes

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Demonstration

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Initiate a support case from an email

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Customer System Support Team

Customer sends an issue over email

Automatically pulls email using Email

Receiver connector

Analyse & Resolve Issue

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Create Email Receiver Connector

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Definition ImplementationIn

put • Email Host

• • Account

Username

• Account Password

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put

• Emails: List of the new received emails containing

• Sender• Subject• Body D

epen

denc

y

• Use Java Mail API to retrieve mails for the configured account• Mail.jar• Activation.jar

• IMAP protocol to access email on the server

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