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Author: lekkim
Positive, competent, out-spoken, frank and customer focused architect and developer with a strong foundation in web, cloud and product development. I'm a strong advocate for API first and cloud based solutions and development. I have a knack for being able to communicate and present technically complicated matters in conference, customer and training settings. I've previously acted as team member and leader in a product organisation.
Quick survey: What would it take to get you started with Java in Notes?
Update: Let’s focus on Java development for Notes – not necessarily plug-ins but simply what would it take to get started with Java – the programming language as that is the first obstacle.
I’m running across quite a lot of people who would like to do sidebar plug-ins and general plug-in development for the Notes 8 platform but who are lacking the Java skills required. Many times they haven’t actually taken the time to learn Java at all since the IDE support in Domino Designer is so poor. Based on this I started thinking about how to get Notes developers started developing in Java. So…
What would it take for you to get started with Java in Notes?
- Up-to-date editor in Domino Designer – I wont use anything else!
- If it is made easy to develop, test and debug in Eclipse I can live with manually having to move the code to Notes for production use.
- It’s not the tool support which is the problem – it’s the lack of time, documentation, API’s, management support or this other thing (please state reason)
- I’m not at all interested in Java – I want to develop plug-ins using a scripting language.
- Other (please state reason)
Please post your response as a comment and a little explanation if you chose “Other”. If you chose option 2 I might just have a solution for you… 🙂
Thanks.
Eclipse and Java for Total Beginners
I’m all for developers learning Java so see “Eclipse and Java for Total Beginners“.
…at least make a rule that all background agents are developed in Java. If you never get started on the journey you never reach the destination…
SWT visual designer
Up to now I have been doing all my Notes 8.5 sidebar UI development manually and coding the UI by hand which is and has been fine. Now getting a WYSIWYG editor is becoming increasingly important both for quick development, demos and for education situations. I went searching for one and found SWT Designer from Instantiations. The editor looks very, very nice (take a look at the demos) and being priced at 239 USD also very competitive from a price standpoint.
My search continues for alternatives but this looks very attractive.
Lotusphere 2009: Seriously – last post about my demos!!!
My brain must have been taken out with the fever as I have only uploaded compressed versions of the update site and not the actual Eclipse projects. I have now uploaded importable Eclipse projects and you can download them from the session page.
Notes 8.5/Eclipse variables
After upgrading to Notes 8.5 GOLD I had to reconfigure my Eclipse IDE for Notes 8.5 as previously described (Configure Eclipse 3.4 for Notes 8.5). For this I needed the new install_id and rcp.base_version and thought I would share.
install_id=1233734589660 rcp.base_version=6.2.0.200811140851 rcp.home=<Notes binary diretory>framework
Upgraded to Notes 8.5 GOLD
With Lotusphere 2009 and my session done I upgraded to Notes 8.5 yesterday from the beta version I have been using so far. Upgrade was uneventful and my Notes client is working fine today and my demos today went just fine. Only issue I have is launching Notes from Eclipse. When upgrading from previous beta versions I just had to update the JVM config, the install_id and the rcp_version in my Eclipse launch configuration but after upgrading to Notes 8.5 GOLD I’m getting strange JAAS errors (Eclipse not being able to locate the NOTES LoginContext configuration). I will have to look into this tomorrow when I’m in the office or simply change my Eclipse configuraion to use the Lotus Expeditor toolkit 6.2 instead of my own configuration.
Lotusphere 2009: Badge stickers
I got back from the US yesterday and hung my Lotusphere 2009 badge in my office with the rest of them and again got surprised by the number of stickers I managed to attain. Blogger, exhibitor/sponsor, speaker, press/analyst, bdday and of cause the Danish flag… 🙂 Wow! The press/analyst I got because it was the only one I didn’t have (besides the IBM ones).
Notes videos
This is way cool as announced by Ed. It will be interesting to see how the service is priced.
“The fastest, most affordable way to learn Notes!
Containing more than 1000 short video clips, the IBM Multimedia Library for Lotus Notes will quickly teach your employees the essential skills they need to be successful with Lotus Notes. New employees will learn key tasks, like archiving and calendaring, and seasoned employees will learn new features and productivity tips. “What’s New” tutorials teach valuable skills and benefits of new features. This is the ultimate training solution for end users, administrative assistants, mobile users and tech support teams.
Lotusphere 2009: A nice session review
Thanks to Andrew Pollack for this one:
This session, delivered by Mikkel Heisterberg — was tailor made for me. I’ve done no plug in development because despite knowing Java and knowing Notes, when it came to plug-in development I didn’t know where to start or what was really feasible. I know the information is out there, but it takes time to go find it and figure it all out. Mikkel put together a session that was absolutely everything I needed to know to start building plug-ins immediately — and not a single thing I didn’t need. This was all signal, no noise and perfectly leveled for someone in my position. Another developer I talked to on the way out called it “three months of head banging frustration skipped over as a result of reading a dozen slides.”