Lotus Notes vs. Microsoft Mesh
You might already know of this but I suggest you listen to the Windows Weekly podcast episode 56 and episode 57 for info on the upcoming Microsoft Mesh. In episode 57 there are comments about Lotus Notes and how Ray Ozzie took the thunder of Notes and brought it to Microsoft.
New CompApp url type (cai:///)
Niklas Heidloff is being very productive today on the CompApp wiki. He just uploaded another page called Pass Context to Components when opening Composite Applications. On this page he explains a new url type (cai:///):
"Opening a connection to a CAI URL will cause the corresponding application to be projected to the client or updated if already on the client, and then opened in the user interface to the specified page. If no page is specified, the first page in the application is opened."
Besides being, as Nathan describes it, "hideous", it's never going to work IMHO. This approach fails the number one test for URL's - they should be easily computable and/or written by users. How something with an appInstanceID of 63 characters (example: CFB7535080ECD4C270FDD126C5DD9E27_11_5JMPDRH1000980269G784H2GO4) came through QA I don't know.
The page refers to M5 (probably milestone 5 for 8.5) and says that "we might publish [the url type] in Lotus Notes 8.0.1". Let's hope not!
CompApp wiki: Open Notes Documents on Pages
Niklas Heidloff from IBM added a nice page to the CompApp wiki today detailing how to use a Notes 8.0.1 feature to open a doucment in a CompApp on a specific page. This is a nice approach and in many cases better than the Notes 8.0 way where a document would open the on a new tab.
More info at the IBM developerWorks CompApp wiki: Open Notes Documents on Pages