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...

I’ve heard the question a couple of times recently how to use the Expeditor toolkit with the Notes 8.5 beta. I’ve seen some instructions from external bloggers how to set up the Eclipse IDE for Not...

Yesterday I wrote about how data in web applications can be replicated locally using Notes replication. Replicating the data is the prereq for offline web applications. The next thing is how you ac...

Yesterday I gave an introduction to the Notes plugin for Aptana Studio. Today I describe in more detail the offline aspects of the prototype. While I actually used Aptana Studio to write the HTML a...

I’ve implemented a prototype that I’d like to describe in this and future blog entries. I call it the Notes plugin for Aptana Studio. Here is a demonstration. Please check it out. I think it is pr...

Since I’ve written about different catalogs recently I wanted to mention one more. There is a public catalog of plugins for Lotus Symphony. Many of the plugins hosted there currently are also usefu...

I wrote yesterday about the add on catalog. As described this catalog works for widgets and for plugins extending the Notes client (e.g. sidebar components, menu contributions). What some people do...

In Lotus Notes/Domino 8.0.1 a new catalog was introduced to manage widgets. This catalog is a Notes database based on toolbox.ntf. This catalog has been extended since then and can now also be used...

Jo Grant and team just released the second version of the composite applications components library on OpenNTF.Org. It contains more than 40 reusable components that you can use to assemble composi...