Last friday I got the book "Mastering Xpages" This is going to be very good stuff I hope.
The reviews are great. Just browsing thru the pages the books seems promising. This book can also be used by anyone not familiar with Lotus Domino Designer or the IBM Lotus Domino document-centric data model.
I'we worked my way thru chapter 3 and moving forward. Beeing qurious about the history of Xpages and it's Java Server Faces origin, I'm now on Chapter 5.
Ed Brill has says something about this book on his blog.
Also xpages.tv is a good resource for quick show and tell instructions.
Go buy the book.
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Making the case for Xpages
XPages has not triggered much enthusiasm yet. I mean in my "part of town". This could be due to technology uncertainty, "Nobody use Notes" or just plain "we don't have the need it or have the money for that".
Now should the market today set the course for your inhouse training program?
Should you postpone or even drop Xpages all together?
This could be a grave mistake.
Project Vulcan will be the new Notes Client. With it's Facebook-like look, it will be a tool for consolidating information to what you need in your role/work.
Now should the market today set the course for your inhouse training program?
Should you postpone or even drop Xpages all together?
This could be a grave mistake.
Project Vulcan will be the new Notes Client. With it's Facebook-like look, it will be a tool for consolidating information to what you need in your role/work.
It's not a new idea at IBM; it's the next logical step moving away from composite applications (now abbandoned?) in the notes client. Even with the latest IBM Lotus Notes Client client you may find information too fragmented and scattered. Project Vulcan aims to change that.
It's a more tight integration of mail, documents,IM, Profiles, Bookmark etc.
Take a note of this:
Chris Miller's blog post "Project Vulcan - say goodbye to the Notes Client?" has a twitter response from Ed Brill:
"For Notes and Domino, we continue to build a Notes client in the next two feature releases,
in addition to building a first-class web and mobile experience."
and:
"GROUP is promoting tools to quickly transform Notes Applications to Xpages. Webinar is coming soon."
We could in a few years see that Project Vulcan is a success, it will be what IBM will push to the customers. It will be the client platform that support integration with IBMs offerings in the cloud. As for your in house Domino aplications? You'd better start lifting them to Xpages soon...
Take a note of this:
Chris Miller's blog post "Project Vulcan - say goodbye to the Notes Client?" has a twitter response from Ed Brill:
"For Notes and Domino, we continue to build a Notes client in the next two feature releases,
in addition to building a first-class web and mobile experience."
and:
"GROUP is promoting tools to quickly transform Notes Applications to Xpages. Webinar is coming soon."
We could in a few years see that Project Vulcan is a success, it will be what IBM will push to the customers. It will be the client platform that support integration with IBMs offerings in the cloud. As for your in house Domino aplications? You'd better start lifting them to Xpages soon...
Friday, August 06, 2010
Future of Lotus Notes Client Development
At Lotusphere 2010 IBM introduced Project Vulcan. By the looks of it it looks like this is not "foilware" but actually working software. No I do not belive that you could by IBM Lotus Vulcan as a product any time soon. I see it as project term for the future workplace, where IBM tries to incorporate several technologies.
IBM did not aquire Java, Orcale did. I do belive that this will mean less development based on the Lotus Expeditor framework. For Lotus developers the focus will be on X-Pages, CSS, HTML5, and ofcourse Web Services.
There will come the time where notes application based on traditional Forms an Views and LotusScript code stored in events will be considered as Notes Legacy Applications. These type of applications will be difficult to embed in the new Lotus offerings like Lotus Connections, Lotus Quikr and in the cloud like LotusLive.
IBM has included X-Page rendering in the 8.5.1 Lotus Notes client. A smart move but I do think this is only to ease transition from a Rich Client architechture to a Web based one (Project Vulcan?). Lotus developers would do better to focus on X-Pages, CSS, HMTL-5, REST for future development.
IBM did not aquire Java, Orcale did. I do belive that this will mean less development based on the Lotus Expeditor framework. For Lotus developers the focus will be on X-Pages, CSS, HTML5, and ofcourse Web Services.
There will come the time where notes application based on traditional Forms an Views and LotusScript code stored in events will be considered as Notes Legacy Applications. These type of applications will be difficult to embed in the new Lotus offerings like Lotus Connections, Lotus Quikr and in the cloud like LotusLive.
IBM has included X-Page rendering in the 8.5.1 Lotus Notes client. A smart move but I do think this is only to ease transition from a Rich Client architechture to a Web based one (Project Vulcan?). Lotus developers would do better to focus on X-Pages, CSS, HMTL-5, REST for future development.
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