Lotusphere 2007: The power of DXL (AD503)
Apart from being told that the DXL implementation in Notes/Domino 8 will be able to surface the source code and WSDL from web services the session was below my expectations.
The fact that the source code of web services will be surfaced will make LotusScript.doc able to pick it up which is nice since I've had problems with this in the past (Domino 7 web services woes). I talked to the developers about this last year and it appears I've been heard. Thank you for that!
Lotusphere 2007: Sametime 7.5.1 upgrade process
Unfortunately we'll have to manually upgrade Sametime 7.5 to Sametime 7.5.1 using an installer - no provisioning via an Update Site is possible. Using an Update Site from 7.5.1 onwards should be possible though.
Lotusphere 2007: Lotusphere Online runs Notes 8 and Lotus Connections
I got pleasently surprised as I logged into Lotusphere Online on-site for the first time yesterday. Last year the site used DWA but this year we're running Notes 8 beta 1. Nice!! It's cool to be able to play around with it on your own pace. I didn't play with it too much but I already dig the new thumbnail functionality.
Apart from Notes 8 there's also a running instance of the newly announced Lotus Connections. Very nice!! Seems like Lotus is really listening and giving us Lotus geeks access to the real stuff. Me like it... ;-)
I know I'm gonna get in trouble for saying this but who needs a Mac when you can run Notes 8 on SUSE Linux Desktop (SLED) with the "cube-desktop" functionality?
Lotusphere 2007: Run your Update Sites from Domino (ID211)
Just attended ID211 by Thomas Gumz from IBM on how you can use Domino as the source for your Update Site to provision features and plug-ins to Sametime 7.5, Expeditor and Notes 8. Lotus has built a really cool template, shipping with Notes 8, that allows you to run an Update Site out of a Notes database instead of using a file system based site. Very cool.
Thomas also mentioned that in Notes 8 you can provision features and plug-ins using NRPC instead of HTTP for remote sites. This will only work against Domino 8 servers since this is a new call that has been added to the NRPC protocol. The URL syntax will be something like nrpc://intranet.company.com/_<replica_id>/updatesite.nsf instead of the http:// equivalent.