Well this is refreshing – Jack Dausman posts about the possible downside to the change of the Notes UI from the home grown UI framework to the Eclipse platform. While he’s worried about the developers and administrators his post got me thinking and I do not think the shift to going to be such a big deal for them. In my view the main impact is going to be on the end-users since they’re the ones actually seeing the new client. The Domino Designer and Domino Administrator is not going to change in the same timeframe – at least that’s what I gather from Ed Brill in the recent Taking Notes podcast.
My view is that the impact on developers and administrators by the move to the Eclipse platform with the Hannover client is going to come from having to develop and manage these new composite, cross-cutting, applications possible with the Hannover client. This is going to make Single-Sign-On and common and managable backends increasingly important. Off cause new development tools and strategies are going to emerge but my guess is that the majority of Notes developers and administrators wont see the big difference for quite a long time.
