By Eugene Polyakov
Alba Spectrum Technologies
Deutschland
(0177) 8349 806,
Moskau
(095) 918 3314,
USA
1-866-528-0577
Domino Designer is an
IDE, which provides to developers the features for creation, management and
deployment of Lotus Domino applications. Version 6.х
has new features for applications
development, below the most interesting of them are listed:
- Domino JSP custom
tag libraries – allows to
developers create JSP pages, operating with Lotus Domino front-end and
back-end objects. HTTP server included in Lotus Domino, can not manage JSP
pages, but any rich J2EE Web
сервер
(such as the IBM WebSphere Advanced Edition) can translate JSP pages with JSP-tags
inside, from Domino JSP custom tag into servlets. Standard Domino Designer
Release 6 pack has as description files for JSP custom tag libraries (domtags.tld
and domutil.tld), as processing classes for those tags (NCSO.JAR archive).
В
JSP technology custom tag libraries direct to Lotus Domino objects via
POP-protocol by Java/CORBA classes.
- XML
support– rather big set of put in LotusScript classes added to Domino
Designer Release 6, which supports stream input/output/translation of Lotus
Domino objects to XML and back. Thus, the whole Lotus Domino database
(including documents, design elements, ACL, header, etc.) can be translated
into XML. Moreover, versa verse translation can be done or apply XSLT for
getting XML. The chains of translation can be created as Lotus Domino object->
XML -> HTML -> XML -> Lotus Domino object, which will be run in a stream
without creation of intermediate XML files. Developers can use only needed
Lotus Domino notes for such translations. Standard Domino Designer Release 6
set has also LotusScript classes which process DOM and SAX parsing XML.
- Java support in
LotusScript. It is possible in
Domino Designer Release 6 directly create Java-session from LotusScript codes
and call into it Java-object codes, including AWT visual classes. Using such a
tool developers can include into their codes all Java-classes features. For
example, possible to provide Lotus Domino data output via visual Java-classes
(as a diagram’s variant). This technology provides clear data interface in the
both directions between LotusScript and Java.
- New data operation
features in Notes Client. The
most of Lotus Domino objects become for flexible for programming. It is
possible the setting column colors in views programmatically, allowing users
to edit or create documents from a view, change programmatically view
selection formula of documents to view and column formulas, programmatically
delete and add columns to view, setup parameters of views independent of other
users, put filters on view information and etc.
Good luck with
implementation, customizing and reports design and if you have issues or
concerns – we are here to help! If you want us to do the job - give us a call:
USA 1-630-961-5918, 1-866-528-0577,
Deutschland (0177) 8349 806
help@albaspectrum.com
Eugene is technical
writer at IBM / Lotus and Microsoft Business Solutions Partner
Alba Spectrum Technologies
, serving client in Germany, USA, UK,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Sao Paulo, Mexico, Russia (
http://www.albaspectrum.com
).