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...

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...