The other day I had to set up SSO via LTPA between IBM Connections and Domino. SSO between WebSphere and Domino has been possible for more than a decade and there are a couple of articles that desc...
Access IBM Connections via REST APIs from XPages using SSO through LTPA
I blogged recently how to set up SSO between XPages and Connections. This enables SSO in general and for users accessing web pages from Connections and Domino. However it does not automatically wor...
Use the XPages Social Enabler to access StackOverflow and Redmine
I’ve just contributed two snippets that show how to access StackOverflow and Redmine. In both cases you need the com.ibm.xsp.extlibx.sbt plugin from the extension library, but you don’t need to dep...
Display XPages in IBM Connections in Full Page Mode
I’ve worked recently on integrating some XPages into IBM Connections. Last year I created a project on OpenNTF that shows how to do this. Essentially the XPages need to be wrapped in iWidgets (xml ...
Display XPages in IBM Connections in Full Page Mode: iFrame Fun
Yesterday I described how to bring up XPages in IBM Connections in fullpage mode. However this solved only half of the problem. Since XPages are embedded in iFrames there is some more work necessar...
How to use Worklight with XPages
In my last blog entry I mentioned that I want to publish instructions for how to use XPages in Worklight. “It is currently not supported to point the Worklight app against a remote web server, e.g...
Why XPages Developers should know Worklight when building Mobile Apps
At the beginning of this year IBM acquired Worklight, a mobile application platform to build, deploy and manage HTML based mobile apps, hybrid apps and native apps. There is plenty of documentatio...
2012 Technology Trends from the IBM WebSphere CTO
Jerry Cuomo is an IBM Fellow and the WebSphere Chief Technology Officer. I watched the other day a great presentation from him about technology trends for 2012. Fortunately he’s published a lot of ...
Why Dojo? Why PhoneGap?
Several people have asked me why IBM uses the Dojo Toolkit as the client side JavaScript library and not other, maybe more popular, frameworks like jQuery. My colleague Chris Mitchell explains this...
Importance of Web APIs and how to consume these APIs in XPages
Recently I’ve read some interesting articles about Web APIs and how they open up new business opportunities. The resources below explain this much better than I can, but in summary the web has beco...