This morning (Tuesday 24 January) I attended session “AD204: Power Programming: Examining and Manipulating IBM Lotus Domino Application Designs” to hear a little about how the presenters were using DXL in their applications. The session was quite nice and in the demos they used DXL a lot to get at the design elements and manipulate them on-the-fly. In the Q&A session afterwards I had the opportunity to ask them why it isn’t possible to get at the source code for web services using DXL. They didn’t know that you were unable to do this but they redirected me to Dick Annicchiorico who’s the guy in charge of all things DXL.
As an aside it turns out that Dick is known internally in IBM as “DXL Dick”.
Dick should be available over in the “Meet the developers lab” so I went there. Unfortunately he could confirm that it was indeed not possible to get at the source code due to some problems with the DXLImporter part so the functionality was dropped from the product. What is really unfortunate for me, and LotusScript.doc, is that he told me that it might not even make it into Hannover which is really a shame.
Seems like the C API approach will have to be the way to go… Bummer.
Are you trying to run web services in lotusscript? If so, I have it working – and it works great. Let me know if you need help.
What I’m trying to do is extract the source code for a LotusScript web service using DXL. Not write a web service per say.