Everyone, I’m working with a couple of colleagues on ideas how we can help the Notes/Domino application development community to continue to grow. I’ll post more about our general goals and ideas i...

For composite applications it is key to be able to assemble existing components without changing them first. That is because sometimes you don’t have access to the component’s code and/or you are t...

Yesterday I had my composite application session at DNUG. At the beginning I asked 1. how many people have heard about composite applications, 2. how many have seen samples and 3. how many have tri...

Brent Peters and Kevin Cavanaugh just started with their opening keynote speech: http://www.dnug.de/DNUG/cms.nsf/id/29KonfAgenda411.htm Reiner Gratzfeld said there are more than 300 attendees. I...

As Bob Balfe blogged the other day, with composite applications you can also access host applications in Lotus Expeditor and Lotus Notes. Post Notes 8.5 we are thinking about making a HOD (see here...

Sometimes when implementing composite applications the Eclipse components don’t come up correctly when the applications are opened in Lotus Notes. In this blog entry I describe why this can happen....

Yesterday I checked how many times the composite application ‘book’ had been downloaded that we posted in June 2008 in the composite application wiki. This book has been requested by many people, b...

The XPages team is adding many articles to the Domino Designer wiki these days. Only in the last two days they’ve added nine articles. Here is a link to the wiki: http://www.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf

In Lotus Notes 8.5 it is possible to invoke actions that are provided by components in composite applications from live text. I often refer to this feature as ‘user initiated actions’ or ‘C2A’ (cli...

Most of you have probably heard about Lotus Mashups (see here and here). Lotus Mashups are very similar to composite applications in Lotus Notes and Expeditor. Mashups are as composite applications...