Domingo is an open source project hosted on Sourceforge that builds upon the standard Lotus Notes/Domino Java API. The Domingo website describes the project as follows:
Domingo is a simple, consistent, object-oriented easy-to-use interface to the Lotus Notes/Domino Java-API.
The project promises easier coding and no more manual recycling of objects.
It is still early in the lifecycle of the project so there is no real documentation up yet except for a small example. The Javadoc is available through and the source code can be viewed on Sourceforge.
I haven’t really looked into the project in great depths yet, but it is nice to see someone investing the time to build a more modern and up-to-date API for Java. It looks like the framework wraps the entire Notes/Domino Java API though it isn’t a drop-in replacement which is too bad since I think it will be a major barrier for adoption.
It’s going to be fun and follow this project.