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Notes and Domino information center for 8.5  
Wed, Jan 7th 2009 3:54a Niklas Heidloff
The Notes and Domino information center for 8.5 is now live - see here. [read] Keywords: domino
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My Lotusphere session
Fri, Dec 12th 2008 11:51a Niklas Heidloff
My trip to Lotusphere has just been approved :) This year I'll have a session about community - The Lotus Developer Ecosystem: Information And Assets To Make Your "Yellow" Tasks Easier (see here). [read] Keywords: ibm
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CRM Composite Application from YouAtNotes
Thu, Nov 27th 2008 2:51a Niklas Heidloff
Julian Buß from YouAtNotes has sent me a preview of their CRM composite application. He wrote that they want to release it at the beginning of next year or even earlier at the end of this year. He uses already the new capability in Lotus Notes 8.5 to put sidebar components in composite applications. I also like the approach that data from Notes databases is rendered via HTML and JavaScript libraries which is easy, based on common programming skills and pretty impressive what visual things yo [read] Keywords: composite
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MindPlan Composite Application Component from Haus Weilgut
Wed, Nov 19th 2008 5:36a Niklas Heidloff
Haus Weilgut has released their version 3.1 of MindPlan. Karsten Lehmann blogs about how you can use MindPlan as a component in a composite application - see here. In the package with the composite application samples there is documentation of the MindPlan component. I also found this (older?) documentation on the blog which describes the properties and actions of this component. [read] Keywords: composite
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Feedback needed: Open catalogs for Lotus Notes/Domino applications
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 9:58a Niklas Heidloff
Everyone, I'm working with a couple of colleagues on ideas how we can help the Notes/Domino application development community to continue to grow. I'll post more about our general goals and ideas in the next weeks. Today I want to focus on a key component for our community - open and public catalogs. I'm convinced that public and open catalogs help our community and all of us to succeed. Very often people implement useful and cool things that they or their company cannot or don't want to make mo [read] Keywords: administration
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Re-use of existing NSFs in new applications without design changes in Lotus Notes
Fri, Nov 7th 2008 3:28a Niklas Heidloff
For composite applications it is key to be able to assemble existing components without changing them first. That is because sometimes you don't have access to the component's code and/or you are too afraid to touch a running system and/or there is nobody in your company anymore who knows how to do it and/or you just don't want to redeploy your component. Because of this we have over the last years added more and more functionality in Lotus Notes/Expeditor to re-use existing components withou [read] Keywords: composite
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Some impressions from DNUG
Wed, Nov 5th 2008 3:52a Niklas Heidloff
Yesterday I had my composite application session at DNUG. At the beginning I asked 1. how many people have heard about composite applications, 2. how many have seen samples and 3. how many have tried composite applications. I was positively surprised that by now almost all people have heard about composite applications and have seen samples. Out of the 60 people 50% have even tried to build applications. I think this is a positive trend if I compare this with previous events. In my session I [read] Keywords: admin
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DNUG has started
Tue, Nov 4th 2008 5:21a Niklas Heidloff
Brent Peters and Kevin Cavanaugh just started with their opening keynote speech: http://www.dnug.de/DNUG/cms.nsf/id/29KonfAgenda411.htm Reiner Gratzfeld said there are more than 300 attendees. I'll post more about it later. [read] Keywords: ldd
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Integration of host applications in Lotus Notes
Fri, Oct 31st 2008 3:20a Niklas Heidloff
As Bob Balfe blogged the other day, with composite applications you can also access host applications in Lotus Expeditor and Lotus Notes. Post Notes 8.5 we are thinking about making a HOD (see here and here) container available. This entry shows another example. The example uses a publicly available demo server and application (see here). Data can be sent in both directions. The first screenshot shows how pass data from any component to the HOD container. The next screenshot shows how [read] Keywords: composite
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Why Eclipse components sometimes don’t show up in composite applications
Wed, Oct 29th 2008 3:32a Niklas Heidloff
Sometimes when implementing composite applications the Eclipse components don't come up correctly when the applications are opened in Lotus Notes. In this blog entry I describe why this can happen. This screenshot shows that the Eclipse component doesn't come up: In order to find out more details the blue link can be clicked to view the diagnostic report: There are four 'expected' errors that can occur: 1. Assemblers typed in manually the feature name, view part name and/or t [read] Keywords: composite
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Lotus Notes composite applications ’book’
Tue, Oct 28th 2008 4:46a Niklas Heidloff
Yesterday I checked how many times the composite application 'book' had been downloaded that we posted in June 2008 in the composite application wiki. This book has been requested by many people, but to my big surprise it has not been downloaded as often as I expected. I guess that is because we hide it too good and we should publish it where more people can find it. http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/compappwiki.nsf/dx/composite-applications-in-notes-benefits-and-technical-overview This book is [read] Keywords: composite
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New XPages wiki articles
Wed, Oct 22nd 2008 5:53a Niklas Heidloff
The XPages team is adding many articles to the Domino Designer wiki these days. Only in the last two days they've added nine articles. Here is a link to the wiki: http://www.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf [read] Keywords: designer
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Live text integrated in composite applications in Notes 8.5
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 9:02a Niklas Heidloff
In Lotus Notes 8.5 it is possible to invoke actions that are provided by components in composite applications from live text. I often refer to this feature as 'user initiated actions' or 'C2A' (click to action - portal terminology). This is different from the predefined wires that we only supported in 8.0, 8.0.1 and 8.0.2. End users can select live text and choose an action. In order to define which property broker actions should be made available for which live text there is a new UI in CAE [read] Keywords: composite
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Lotus Mashups and iWidgets integrated in Lotus Notes
Wed, Oct 15th 2008 1:49a Niklas Heidloff
Most of you have probably heard about Lotus Mashups (see here and here). Lotus Mashups are very similar to composite applications in Lotus Notes and Expeditor. Mashups are as composite applications assemblies of components/widgets. You can think of mashups and composite applications as the same fundamental concept. They are just different implementations for different platforms. Mashups contain iWidgets that are accessed via a web browser. Composite applications contain components/widgets that a [read] Keywords: composite
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How to use the Expeditor toolkit 6.1.2 with Notes 8.5 beta
Fri, Oct 10th 2008 3:52a Niklas Heidloff
I've heard the question a couple of times recently how to use the Expeditor toolkit with the Notes 8.5 beta. I've seen some instructions from external bloggers how to set up the Eclipse IDE for Notes 8.5 (for example from Mikkel Heisterberg). My colleague Pierre Carlson has posted instructions for how to use the 6.1.2 toolkit before the 6.2 toolkit will be released. [read] Keywords: expeditor
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Atom to access services in Lotus Notes
Wed, Oct 8th 2008 2:50a Niklas Heidloff
Yesterday I wrote about how data in web applications can be replicated locally using Notes replication. Replicating the data is the prereq for offline web applications. The next thing is how you access data in Notes and/or Expeditor from your local web applications. There are different options to do this. In this blog entry I want to describe one option which I think is the most typical and common one for web applications. Again, what I want to show with this prototype is that Notes/Domino i [read] Keywords: agent
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Offline web applications in Notes
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 5:14a Niklas Heidloff
Yesterday I gave an introduction to the Notes plugin for Aptana Studio. Today I describe in more detail the offline aspects of the prototype. While I actually used Aptana Studio to write the HTML and JavaScript files, this blog entry describes the runtime aspects of the prototype which Notes could even provide when using other development tools. As the demonstration of the Yahoo rich text editor shows (see here) you can easily run web applications in the Notes client. In addition to this how [read] Keywords: designer
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Lotus Notes plugin for Aptana Studio
Mon, Oct 6th 2008 1:55a Niklas Heidloff
I've implemented a prototype that I'd like to describe in this and future blog entries. I call it the Notes plugin for Aptana Studio. Here is a demonstration. Please check it out. I think it is pretty cool. My main motivation for writing this prototype was to show that Notes/Domino supports the standard/normal web application programming model. I've heard too many times that people still consider Notes/Domino proprietary and that Notes/Domino application development requires proprietary [read] Keywords: composite
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Lotus Symphony plugins catalog
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 3:53a Niklas Heidloff
Since I've written about different catalogs recently I wanted to mention one more. There is a public catalog of plugins for Lotus Symphony. Many of the plugins hosted there currently are also useful for Lotus Notes. Symphony plugins catalog In order to install these plugins in Lotus Notes you need to download the update sites and then install them via the application management UI. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Composite application components in add on catalog
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 3:52a Niklas Heidloff
I wrote yesterday about the add on catalog. As described this catalog works for widgets and for plugins extending the Notes client (e.g. sidebar components, menu contributions). What some people don't know is that you can also put composite application components in it. Composite application components are also plugins, but a certain type of plugins. They are Eclipse ViewParts. And more importantly they should not only show up in the My Widgets sidebar panel, but also on the Composite Applic [read] Keywords: composite
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Widget catalog on OpenNTF.Org
Wed, Oct 1st 2008 3:53a Niklas Heidloff
In Lotus Notes/Domino 8.0.1 a new catalog was introduced to manage widgets. This catalog is a Notes database based on toolbox.ntf. This catalog has been extended since then and can now also be used for Expeditor clients and it can be used for more than widgets. You can also use it to install regular Eclipse plugins to your Notes client which are not widgets. See here for more information. In Notes/Domino 8.5 we will call this catalog 'add on catalog' to my knowledge. The catalog can be used [read] Keywords: domino
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Welcome to my new blog !
Tue, Sep 30th 2008 7:57p Niklas Heidloff
Hello everyone, as some of you might know I haven't published any entries in the composite applications blog for a long time. I've been too busy with work and there have been some issues with the old blog. Now however I have some time again and want to write about some exciting things I've worked on recently. I use now the Lotus Notes/Domino blog template which gives me a much better editor than previously and I don't have the 24 MB quota anymore. My goal is to at least publish one en [read] Keywords: composite
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Component library v2 released on OpenNTF.Org
Tue, Sep 30th 2008 7:47p Niklas Heidloff
Jo Grant and team just released the second version of the composite applications components library on OpenNTF.Org. It contains more than 40 reusable components that you can use to assemble composite applications for Lotus Notes and Expeditor. This document contains a summary of the components. There are a bunch of new components and some newer versions of the components from the library version 1. For each component there is now also a mini unit test to show how these components are supposed [read] Keywords: composite
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