Tuesday, October 16, 2007

IBM Lotus Domino : Composite Applications


The Lead Manager application in IBM Lotus Notes V8: An overview

Learn how to combine multiple Lotus Notes applications and other technologies to produce a unified interface in which users can conduct their business more effectively and supply innovative business solutions.

Designing composite applications: Component design

This article charts some basic approaches for designing components for composite application development that have maximum reuse. You can use many different strategies to provide the optimum components.

IBM Blog site for Composite applications
Bring information and collaboration into the context of your daily business processes using composite applications
This web log is a joint effort by the key technical architects and user experience professionals to open a direct line of communication with developers about the capabilities of user facing composite applications. The primary focus will be on Lotus Notes/Domino, WebSphere Portal, Lotus Expeditor, and future Lotus products to be named later. We will also be commenting on composite application trends that we see in the broader market. It's important to note that none of us speak officially for IBM, nor can we make product commitments or discuss products that have not been announced.

Two simple tutorials to build NSF based apps with NSF and Eclipse components
Build NSF based composite application Tutorial 1 (PDF)
The first tutorial shows a very simple NSF based composite application with one NSF component and two component views that communicate via property broker between each other.


Build NSF based composite application Tutorial 2 (PDF)
The second tutorial adds another component to the same application. The tutorial shows how this Eclipse component can be built with the Eclipse IDE.