Release notes

The 2023.1 is in development.

Improvements

Development suite changes

Bonita project layout

Bonita projects layout has been changed to take advantage of Maven multi-module project perks.

First project component that will benefit from Maven multi-module project is the Business Data Model. We decided to align the way the Business Data Model is handled in Bonita with the standard dependency handling practices by using Maven submodules. Submodules, or subprojects, are regular Maven projects that inherit from the parent POM.

With the chosen solution, the users will have the possibility to publish and consume the Business Data Model java dependencies independently. The project will pull the required dependencies from a specified repository - Maven Central or Bonita Artifact Repository - to generate the BDM java sources.

Business Data Model content check at build or deploy will still be developer’s responsibility along with handling data-deletion risks at build or deploy. For this Bonita version, reusing the generated artifacts in another Bonita project is not supported with refactoring capabilities. All changes will have to be handled manually by developers.

Feature deprecations and removals

Custom Rest API Extension and BDM dependencies

When updating a Bonita project in Bonota Studio 2023.1 version, BDM dependencies will be directed to use the new the *-bdm-model artifact introduced with the Bonita project layout changes. Meaning that bdm-client and bdm-dao dependencies will automatically be replaced with project’s bdm-model dependency.

Additionnally, the dependency containing the client DAO implementation will be removed from the dependencies list. It can affect the code directly referencing the *DAOImpl classes. To avoid this situation, change the code to use the DAO interfaces present in the bdm-model dependency. The changes can be done before or after updating to the 2023.1 version without breaking the project.

Reminder : in case *DAOImpl class was instantiated in the code, APIClient#getDAO factory method has to be used instead.

For example, for a given BusinessObject Customer

// Direct instantiation
CustomerDAOImpl dao = new CustomerDAOImpl(context.getApiSession());

// Replace it with APIClient factory
CustomerDAO dao = context.getApiClient().getDAO(CustomerDAO.class);

Multi-tenancy removal

For Subscription editions only.

Deprecated multi-tenancy has been removed.

To cover the multi-tenancy use cases in the best technical way, Bonitasoft is proposing a new architecture solution. For customers running a Bonita multi-tenancy platform, the technical path from multi-tenancy proposed by Bonitasoft is multi-runtime. This choice will require to split the current multi-tenant platform into several runtimes, each one with their own Bonita engine database.

As this path can be challenging for customers using multi-tenancy, Bonitasoft developed a conversion tool, available for download on Bonitasoft Customer Portal. We strongly suggest our customers to take the time and use the tool in a pre-production environment before using it on a production environment.

Multi-tenancy to multi-runtime conversion tool can be executed on Bonita Runtimes starting with Bonita 7.11 and up to Bonita 7.15.

In case you are using a non-supported version, perform the update of the platform before converting it to multi-runtime.

Reminder : For commercial and support questions, please refer to your Customer Success referent.