Yesterday we launched Collaboration Today. Read the OpenNTF blog entry for details. I’d like to thank everyone who has helped to make this happen. Especially I want to thank the people who’ve deve...
XPages Updates in the next Maintenance Release
The slides of the Open Mic Webcast “Developing XPages Applications – 7 August 2012” have been published. In this webcast several IBM XPages developers talked about XPages updates in the next mainte...
How to develop IBM Connections apps for the XPages Contest
OpenNTF announced the fourth XPages development contest. I’m very happy that we managed to organize this one. Especially I want to thank the new sponsor hedersoft. This time we wanted to try somet...
OpenNTF Slides from Dominopoint Days 2012
Giuseppe Grasso invited me to this year’s Dominopoint Days which I attended for the first time. It was a great event and I had a lot of fun. Thanks a lot to Giuseppe, Daniele Grillo and Claudio Mer...
Invoking the IBM Connections REST APIs from XPages
As part of my blog series I describe below some tips and tricks for how to use the Connections REST APIs from XPages. I strongly suggest to use the XPages Social Enabler infrastructure which is in...
Sample Event SPI Implementation in IBM Connections
IBM Connections 3.0.1 comes with a set of service provider interfaces (SPIs) that can be used to extend Connections functionality: – Event SPI: Allows third parties to consume event data generated...
Resources for IBM Connections Developers
There are a couple of resources available for IBM Connections developers. Below is a list of key resources that I used to implement this sample. Wiki The wiki contains both articles from the comm...
Remote Debugging of IBM Connections SPI Implementations
As I wrote in my previous blog entry I’ve used the Connections event SPI to update Notes ACLs when community memberships are changed. Since my first implementation attempt didn’t work I started to...
Kicking off a new Blog Series: XPages Usage in IBM Connections
As the readers of this blog will know, I’ve done some work in the area of integrating XPages in IBM Connections. The goal is to use XPages as rapid application platform to extend IBM Connections ea...
Deploying XPages iWidgets to IBM Connections
XPages can be wrapped in iWidgets to extend IBM Connections 3.0.1 (watch this video). Since Domino 8.5.1 there is a new design element ‘Components’ in Designer to create these widget xml descriptor...