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New Extension Library with XPages based Doc Library Template

Niklas Heidloff | 7:53:27 AM Friday, January 27, 2012 | Full Story and Comments

The XPages development team has uploaded a new release of the Extension Library that contains new functionality as Phil describes below PLUS the document library template updated to XPages !

From Phil Riand:

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This release integrates major fixes, based on the comments/requests we got in the past month. Plus, it has all the fixes we needed for the Lotusphere live demos :-) Finally, it also includes an attempt to fix the IE8 dialog behavior. Please, let us know if you still see issues with IE8.

On the social side, we integrated some feedback we got at Lotusphere. As an example, look at the twitter sample page, and you'll see the options we added to cache the tweets for 60 secs without calling back the Twitter server (of course, the 60sec can be chenged, and the same behavior can be applied to the other services).

Thank you for the great feedback, and the positive strokes, we got at LS!
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Please note that the right release was only uploaded on 01/27/12 at 9:00 AM EST. The zip file in the same release document yesterday was a wrong one.

How to build your own XPages Extension Libraries

Niklas Heidloff | 3:07:33 AM Wednesday, January 25, 2012 | Full Story and Comments

I blogged some time ago about different types of XPages developers. One type of developers are Java developers who use the Eclipse IDE to build their own extension libraries which can be deployed as OSGi bundles globally to Domino servers. While this is not as easy as building apps and controls with Designer it provides more capabilities and allows easy usage in multiple databases.

These custom libraries use the XPages Extensibility API. I provided some time ago simple samples showing how to use this API.

Nathan Freeman brought this now to a new level. His project XSP Starter Kit has many more samples and more sophisticated samples.

Additionally Nathan shared some code that makes it really easy to set up an Eclipse IDE for XPages development: XPages SDK for Eclipse. With this project you don't need the Expeditor toolkit. There is also a wizard to create your own extension library plugin. Read more in his blog.

When you develop plugins in Eclipse you can directly debug them (often) without having to redeploy them. Check out the Debug Plugin and watch this video.

Lotusphere 2012 BP109 Slides: Apps, Apps, and More Apps: Meet the Very Best Open Source Apps from OpenNTF - The 2012 Edition

Bruce Elgort | 6:19:48 PM Tuesday, January 24, 2012 | Full Story and Comments
Apps, Apps, and More Apps: Meet the Very Best Open Source Apps from OpenNTF - The 2012 Edition
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During the session Bruce and Niklas demonstrated the following apps:

XSnippets - Serdar Basegmez, Frank van der Linden, Bruce Elgort, Niklas Heidloff
Social Enabler - XPages development team
JDBC - XPages development team
Mobile Address Book - Mark Hughes
Twitter Controls - Henning Schmidt
Mobile Contacts and Reminders - David Marko
Help - Paul Withers
Mobile To Dos - Mark Hughes
Mobile Admin - Ferhat Bulut
Mobile Navigator - Lars Buntrock
Lotus People - Mariusz Jakubowski
Event Signup - Michael McGarel
WatrCoolr - Tim Tripcony
XBlog - Keith Strickland
View PickList - Mark Hughes
Search and TagCloud - Frank van der Linden
Java Charts - Naveen Maurya
ZK Spreadsheet - Dennis Chen
ReCaptcha - Marco Dreher
Select Database - Lars Buntrock
Uni-Form Controls - Mariusz Jakubowski
PDF Exporter - Rami Muurimaki

Lotusphere Social Business Online used OpenNTF Projects

Niklas Heidloff | 5:43:03 AM Monday, January 23, 2012 | Full Story and Comments

The Social Business Online system used the poll control from Ferry Kranenburg. From the 'making' document:

<<The Poll Widget utilizes an XPages Poll Custom Control available on OpenNTF.org. This poll was submitted by F. Kranenburg and provided a great base for us to deploy a polling application. The custom control was further customized to store results into a Domino document.>>

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The online system also used the XPages Social Enabler for the Twitter integration:

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Ryan Baxter used in his Social Gadgets session the event signup app from Mike McGarel.

OpenNTF mentioned in the OGS at Lotusphere

Niklas Heidloff | 8:55:50 AM Monday, January 16, 2012 | Full Story and Comments

Kevin Cavanaugh talked this morning in the Lotusphere Opening General Session about OpenNTF's success and IBM's commitment to the XPages community.

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Sorry for the poor quality of the pictures.



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