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.

SWT@Notes 8: Workbench startup and the Accounts API

So one of the things I have been wresteling with over the last couple of weeks is the Accounts API in Notes 8 / Expeditor. While very nice at the core it does leave something to be desired. Trying to interact with the Accounts API from a plugin running in Notes can and probably will result in an exception and the following messages being printed to the OSGi console if you happen to be looking there (which you really should). Look for an upcoming post for any easier approach… 🙂 

CLFMW0050E: Workbench is not ready to handle
   background thread request !
CLFMW0036E: Workbench is not ready for this
   operation

Suffice it to say that the lesson is that the Accounts API might be the same across Expeditor based clients but the implementation differs. For instance On Notes the accounts are stored in the local name and address book while it is stored in other formats in other Expeditor clients. This is all well and good but the fact that a Notes database is the backend store on Notes leaks through the API. The above messages are solved by running the code that access the Accounts API in a NotesJob. Really!? This is very poor design IMHO but something I think we have to live with.

Ahh the frustrations sometimes makes me want to scream…

Take the red pill and click your heels 3 times…

“You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.”

I do not consider myself a total nut job but I invite you and encourage you to listen to this episode of the Daily Source Code podcast for your start to the awakening. If nothing else it’s an eye opener… Taste the red pill.

Daily Source Code #781 for Friday August 8th 2008: Confessions Of A MultiMedia HitMan.

TwitNotes – proxy support in v. 1.0.5

So TwitNotes has been out for a while now and I have been discussing various aspects of the application with users. One of the issues that come up time and time again is proxy support. The proxies supported by TwitNotes v. 1.0.5 are the proxies supported by the Notes version you’re using.

One of the issues I discovered is that the proxy configuration in location documents doesn’t seem to work all the time. Sometimes the proxy configuration is only picked up from the “Network Connections” page under Preferences. Another observation is that only the “Manual proxy configuration” option seems to work.

Your miles may vary and please let me know if you have proxy issues.

CURLing on Windows

curl is a well known application for doing HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, LDAP (and more) requests from the command line. curl is also available for Windows from the curl site. I found this installer to be working nicely on Windows after installing the OpenSSL libraries for Windows.

Notes 8.5 OSGi console madness

Ahhh some of the fun stuff you see when running Notes 8.5 with the OSGi console showing… 🙂 

<DWSystem> null
[<DWSystem>   11:11:46:590] partial 0.000 -
   cumulative 0.000 -
   instantiate  controller
[<DWSystem>   11:11:48:545] partial 1.955 -
   cumulative 1.955 -
   instantiate  action dispatcher
[<DWSystem>   11:11:48:870] partial 0.325 -
   cumulative 2.28 -
   instantiate ComputeAttrs
[<DWSystem>   11:11:48:880] partial 0.010 -
   cumulative 2.290 -
   instantiate AttrMap
[<DWSystem>   11:11:48:910] partial 0.030 -
   cumulative 2.32 -
   instantiate distance function
[<DWSystem>   11:11:49:855] partial 0.945 -
   cumulative 3.265 -
   set incremental augmentor to  null
[<DWSystem>   11:11:49:965] partial 0.110 -
   cumulative 3.375 -
   instantiate executor
[<DWSystem>   11:11:50:906] partial 0.941 -
   cumulative 4.316 -
   instantiate displayer
[<DWSystem>   11:11:50:971] partial 0.065 -
   cumulative 4.381 -
   instantiate treewalker
[<DWSystem>   11:11:50:976] partial 0.0050 -
   cumulative 4.386 -
   instantiate the widget manager
[<DWSystem>   11:11:51:106] partial 0.130 -
   cumulative 4.516 -
   instantiate instrumentation services
[<DWSystem>   11:11:52:021] partial 0.915 -
   cumulative 5.431 -
   instantiate the abstraction module
[<DWSystem>   11:11:52:351] partial 0.330 -
   cumulative 5.761 -
   instantiate the logical name translator
factory class name
   com.ibm.pw.DocWizard.ExpeditorWidgets.ExpWidgetFactory
Create ExpWidgetFactory
factory class name
   com.ibm.pw.DocWizard.SWTWidgets.SWTWidgetFactory
[<DWSystem>   11:12:01:577] partial 9.226 -
   cumulative 14.987 -
   instantiated the widget factory
[<DWSystem>   11:12:02:009] partial 0.432 -
   cumulative 15.419 -
   instantiate step instantiator
[<DWSystem>   11:12:02:597] partial 0.588 -
   cumulative 16.007 -
   instantiated the session trace
[<DWSystem>   11:12:03:272] partial 0.675 -
   cumulative 16.682 -
   instantiated  control loop -
   done initializing DWSystem
View initialization done
CLOSING SYSTEM