Lotusphere 2008: Expeditor and Notes dependencies
I went to the "Meet the Developers" lab to discuss some Expeditor issues I have been having and got a few questions answered. For one it turns out that Expeditor 6.1 isn't supported on Windows 2003 due to "strange errors". This means that the 6 hours I have spent today getting my demo environment on Windows 2003 to work have been in vain.
Apart from that I was told that Notes 8.5 will be based on the upcoming Expeditor 6.2 (out later in the year) which again is based on Eclipse 3.4. This means that Lotus will skip Eclipse 3.3 (Europa) altogether. I was also told that IBM will never remove libraries even though they have been deprecated in Eclipse.
Lotusphere 2008: I'm going to miss HND301
Arrrhhhh.... I'm going to miss HND301 due to technical problems at our booth... :-(
Sametime Awareness Simulator - part 2
Well I discussed the SAS with Nathan last night at the Welcome Reception and it seems like it struck a nerve and it's something that's usable for a lot of the guys in the showcase. I cleared everything out last night so I will probably be sharing the application during the day (Monday).
I have many plans for future enhancements. For now it only simulates awareness but a logical extension would be for it to be able to accept file transfers, join group chats and reply to 1-on-1 chats. One should be able to specify a prerecorded chat script for individual users.
More to follow...
Sametime Awareness Simulator
As part of the preparations for some of the stuff we (IntraVision) will be showing off at Lotusphere 2008 I have developed a Sametime Awareness Simulator. The simulator is used to simulate Sametime users in a demo environment without having to run multiple Sametime Connect clients when all you need is to simulate awareness (that is some users being available, some away etc.). The application will let you manually add username/password combinations or read the usernames and passwords from a configuration file at startup. It will also automatically set the awareness status as specified in the file (available, away, in a meeting, do not disturb).
Below is a screenshot of the application which you can see is written using the Eclipse RCP framework and the Sametime Java SDK. I hope I will be able to let you all to download the application for use in your own demos.
Now I'm off to the beach... :-)