Demo: Extend IBM Connections rapidly with XPages

Niklas Heidloff | 06:10:39 AM June 6 2012
IBM Connections is social software for business that lets you access everyone in your professional network. XPages is IBM's rapid application development platform for web and mobile applications.

In the video below I demonstrate a simple scenario how a Connections community has been extended using XPages. I focus on the typical user experience and show that users cannot see which parts of the community application have been built via XPages vs which parts are core Connections functionality.

Technically I had to write some code to make this work. I'll blog about this over the next days or weeks separately and I want to open source these utilities. With these utilities it is a matter of a few hours to build an extension as the one in the video.



I'll continue to work on Connections XPages integration scenarios. If you have requirements please let me know.


  • Comments [8]


1Lars  6/6/2012 6:55:41 AM  Demo: Extend IBM Connections rapidly with XPages

Great work Niklas!

Looking forward about the technical details!

Thanks a lot for these cool stuff,

Lars



2Niklas Heidloff  6/6/2012 7:37:15 AM  Demo: Extend IBM Connections rapidly with XPages

Thanks, Lars.



3Don  6/6/2012 7:49:46 AM  Demo: Extend IBM Connections rapidly with XPages

Is it possible to connect this to IBM SmartCloud?



4Don  6/6/2012 7:50:22 AM  Demo: Extend IBM Connections rapidly with XPages

Sorry forgot to mention: GREAT WORK!



5Niklas Heidloff  6/6/2012 8:20:09 AM  Demo: Extend IBM Connections rapidly with XPages

Thanks, Don.

Can you say more? There is a quick start image in the IBM SmartCloud for developers which has Domino and Connections installed. I use actually a local version of this image where I updated Domino to 8.5.3. { Link }



6Don  6/6/2012 9:57:21 AM  Demo: Extend IBM Connections rapidly with XPages

I would like to know if we connect to our LotusLive environment (or IBM SmartCloud as it is now called) because we don't have a local IBM Connection install.



7Niklas Heidloff  6/6/2012 10:04:12 AM  Demo: Extend IBM Connections rapidly with XPages

Don, with the XPages social enabler you can connect from your Domino applications to LotusLive via the LotusLive REST APIs and OAuth. Watch this video: { Link }



8Don  6/6/2012 10:25:54 AM  Demo: Extend IBM Connections rapidly with XPages

Thanks! Working on a project proposal for this.. ;-)




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