In case you have not seen this entry (like me) on the Lotus Notes and Domino Wiki, there is an article that explains how to add an iWidget to an XPage application.

Enabling iWidgets in IBM Lotus Domino Web applications

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Open Source, graphics and me – not a good mix Thu, Jul 29th 2010 12:32p Bob Balfe Because of IP laws and such, I had to create an icon for the attachment viewer project so tonight I decided to figure out how I will do this. I am no artist by far but I do have some pretty easy to use and free tools at my disposal. I figured the best way is to use some kind of presentation editor like Symphony, then use GIMP to actually size and save the image as a jpeg. The paste into GIMP was not very good so I basically scaled it down and took a screen shot to get a good icon sized ima [read] Keywords: notes notes client symphony blogger email facebook linkedin twitter

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Attachment Viewer update Tue, Jul 27th 2010 12:31p Bob Balfe Just an FYI, I have commented in a few places on my blog but in case you missed it. If you have the second update of the attachment viewer and are running on the Mac you can uninstall and then reinstall the Widget to get it working again. You need to actually uninstall the widget from My Widgets and then drag the bitmap below (which points to the extension.xml) back on to the My Widgets panel. Sorry for the inconvenience. Email this to a friend? Blog this on Blogger [read] Keywords: blogger email facebook linkedin mac twitter widget widgets xml

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Extension Points and OSGI services, what’s the difference? Tue, Jul 27th 2010 9:40a Bob Balfe If you are new to Eclipse you may have heard of Extension Points and OSGI services. Then, when you learn what each of them are you might ask yourself “Why two ways to provide extensibility at the code level?”. I have been asked this many times over the years and my responses are probably more confusing than helpful. Neil Bartlett has an excellent article about this and it is a must read. Why is this important? Well, if you are following the Domino server and other server ba [read] Keywords: domino blogger eclipse email facebook linkedin server twitter

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Testing your code… Mon, Jul 26th 2010 10:31a Bob Balfe As many readers have been reading on my site the attachment viewer has gotten a lot of attention both on the site, internally at IBM and also in my personal email. This last update actually broke in a couple of places – first was the MAC issue where I unintentionally put requirements on a specific bundles (something that Eclipse does automatically when you select a dependency). And second – the debug options are displaying by default. I figured I would take this time to explain [read] Keywords: ibm application blogger eclipse email facebook firefox javascript linkedin mac twitter

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Residency Announcement: LO-0W01-R01 Developing Customized Components for Lotus Notes, Sametime, and Symphony Fri, Jul 23rd 2010 1:10p Bob Balfe Passing this information on for the Redbooks team. Benefits to Resident: Do you have experience developing customized components for Lotus Notes, Sametime, and Symphony? Are you interested in showing how to make the most of those powerful add-on capabilities within our Lotus collaboration environment? Would you like to contribute your knowledge to a new wiki deliverable project? If so, we want you to join our virtual team. By participating in this residency you will gain hands-on, practica [read] Keywords: collaboration domino expeditor ibm lotus notes sametime symphony blogger community development email facebook linkedin twitter wiki

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Demo: Installing the attachment viewer into Lotus Notes Fri, Jul 23rd 2010 12:41p Bob Balfe Many people have emailed me or asked how to install the attachment viewer into Lotus Notes 8.5.1 and above. The easiest method is to use the My Widgets view in the Lotus Notes client. Starting in Notes 8.5.1 you can actually install Eclipse features and plugins using this method. The video below shows how you can do this, I even show how you can enable Widgets in the Lotus Notes client. Email this to a friend? Blog this on Blogger Share this on Facebook E [read] Keywords: lotus notes notes client application blogger eclipse email facebook linkedin openntf twitter widgets

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Attachment viewer architecture diagram and explanation Fri, Jul 23rd 2010 10:10a Bob Balfe You can check out the screen shots and this image also on OpenNTF. If you are good at looking at the source code and project setup you can probably figure this out pretty easily. I figured posting this diagram to the project would help out “other contributors” so they can assist with the project. As you can see from the diagram I use a thin layer (the SWT Embedded browser) for things like consuming the Eclipse selection and then calling a JavaScript(JS) function directly in t [read] Keywords: ntf blogger eclipse email facebook firefox javascript linkedin openntf twitter

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Tutorial: How to add the Attachment Viewer to your mail file Thu, Jul 22nd 2010 8:31a Bob Balfe As promised, here is the step by step tutorial for adding the attachment viewer to your email. Go ahead and check out the video before you begin so you will get a clear picture of what I am talking about – in case you missed the post. While these steps are very basic, I am going to explain them using the very technical Eclipse terminology so in the end you will surely know how the Notes 8 client is constructed and especially Mail. Attachment viewer in Lotus Notes Mail Step by Step I [read] Keywords: ibm lotus notes notes client application blogger database eclipse email facebook linkedin properties twitter widget widgets xml

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Attachment Viewer plus Dojo make for better platform support Wed, Jul 21st 2010 10:00a Bob Balfe Thank you everyone who have installed, played with, and have given me feedback on the viewer! I have actually done a pretty large rewrite of the project – mostly to be more of a real project that is mostly web based and will work on all platforms (hopefully). I have moved the project to use Dojo and currently use the Google CDN so you have to be online (for now) to use this viewer. I need to figure out if I will just package Dojo with the project – which will make it more stable [read] Keywords: notes application blogger dojo eclipse email facebook google interface java javascript linkedin openntf server twitter

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Get the Lotus Notes attachment viewer today! Fri, Jul 16th 2010 12:40p Bob Balfe Disclaimer - this code is really hot off the press so use at your own risk!. I am currently getting the code approved for OpenNTF so you will actually be able to play with the Eclipse project and even contribute. There are literally dozens of ideas coming in already, hopefully we get people contributing to this project in the long run. Here is the widget to install the viewer using Widgets: You can also install through the Eclipse update site manager with this URL – http://blog.balfes.n [read] Keywords: ldd lotus notes blogger eclipse email facebook java linkedin linux mac openntf twitter widget widgets xml