03.02.2010

Webcast: Lotusphere 2010 Opening General Session

Category: Lotusphere 2010 Lotusphere Konferenzen

The Lotusphere 2010 Opening General Session is now available as webcast. You can watch the Lotusphere 2010 OGS as 2 hours and 22 minutes long streaming video:
Lotusphere 2010 Opening General Session

Besides the video (for RealPlayer or Windows Media Player) there is the presentation as PDF file (266 pages!) and the transcript of the session (coming soon).

29.01.2010

Artikel über Lotus Notes/Domino in der Perl-Zeitschrift $foo

Category: Lotus Notes Lotus Domino Perl Java assono Framework 2

Lotus Notes ist für sich genommen schon eine starke Sache. Aber man kann es auch noch vielfältig erweitern z.B. mit Perl und Java, wie bereits in diesem Blog-Eintrag gezeigt.
Für die aktuelle Ausgabe der Zeitschrift $foo habe ich ein solches Beispiel einer (zugegebenermaßen eher ungewöhnlichen Anwendung) beschrieben. Insbesondere *nix- Administratoren, die auch Notes/Domino einsetzen, wird der Artikel interessieren. Anschaulich wird gezeigt, wie man mit Perl über Java-Schnittstellen auf Notes/Domino-Anwendungen zugreift und so die unterschiedlichen "Welten" miteinander verbindet. Auf jeden Fall eine hochinteressante Kombination.
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14.01.2010

Lotusphere 2010 - We'll be there

Category: Lotusphere 2010 Lotusphere Konferenzen

Again we'll be at Lotusphere, and again we'll host a Birds-of-Feather session about OOP in Notes and Domino:
 

BOF204: Object-Orientated Programming in IBM Lotus Notes and Domino
Session date	Wednesday, 2010-01-20
Session time	7:00am - 8:00am
Session location	Swan Hotel, Parrot 2
Speakers	Thomas Bahn, Bernd Hort

Session description:

Object-oriented programming (OOP) in Lotus Notes and Domino currently means LotusScript for most developers. Who uses OOP in their applications, where and why? Only LotusScript, Java or even object-oriented JavaScript? We'll start with some questions about the present state of OOP in Lotus Notes and Domino. Then we'll discuss what you believe are the reasons for this state. After that, we'll have a look at the new features of 8.0.x and 8.5.x: How will Domino Designer on Eclipse change things? What influence do composite applications and XPages, server-side JavaScript, (Eclipse) components and coming Java UI classes have on this subject? We'll close with a discussion about future directions.

Session details on the IBM Web site: https://www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/lotus/lsph2010.nsf/sessionabstract?openform&sessionid=BOF204

12.01.2010

BlackBerry Client for Lotus Connections 2.3 and Quickr 1.0

Category: Lotus Connections Lotus Quickr BlackBerry

IBM announced today the availability of new versions of the BlackBerry clients for their collaboration products:

• BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections 2.3
• BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Quickr 1.0

"Specific enhancements built into the BlackBerry clients for IBM Lotus software for Connections and Quickr

With BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections 2.3, there is now support for Blogs, Activities, Bookmarks, and Communities, and an enhanced Profile information capability including pictures. The richer integration with BlackBerry core applications makes the application appear as an integral part of the BlackBerry device, and is easier to use.

This is the first BlackBerry client for IBM Lotus Quickr in the market and with it the enterprise users can perform most of the key activities from their BlackBerry devices that they would wish to do when working with documents.

• Navigate and view library contents
• Designate libraries as "Favorites" for fast access
• Sort and filter folder contents to highlight material the user wants to find easily
• View file and folder details - when and by whom it was created and modified
• Preview documents via the BlackBerry Attachment Service
• Download and check out documents for editing
• Check in documents, in addition to or to replace older versions
• Organize documents in new folders created from the BlackBerry smartphone
• E-mail document authors with questions
• Send a link to a document or folder rather than sending the entire document"

I find it interestingly that this announcement is just one week before Lotusphere (and not at Lotusphere). My interpretation is that these are only peanuts compared to the news announced next week in Orlando...

Source: http://www-01.ibm.com/cgi-bin/common/ssi/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&htmlfid=877/ENUSZP10-0041

17.12.2009

Abstract classes concrete

Category: OOP Entwicklung LotusScript

If you have some knowledge about other object-oriented programming languages, like Java, you probably like abstract classes. These are classes you cannot instanciate directly, i.e. create new objects from them. But you can derive other classes from them and create objects from these subclasses. In an abstract class you can have attributes and methods like in any other class.

Normally, abstract classes model some kind of concept or abstraction, for example Animal. There are dogs and cats, but no creature is merely an animal, its always of a concrete kind of animal.

In the abstract class Animal you put those attributes and members, which all animals have in common. Then you build subclasses like Dog or Cat, which add new or overwrite inherited members.

Other classes are abstract, because they have methods, which cannot be implemented at this level. Only concrete subclasses "know", how to implement them.

A typical example of this is a generic Sorter class with a Sort method. The concrete subclasses BubbleSorter, HeapSorter and QuickSorter overwrite the abstract Sort method with different implementations.

Unfortunately, in LotusScript there are no abstract classes. But there is a workaround, which can kind of simulate them:
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16.12.2009

I am Legend ;-)

Category: Sonstiges

Ich fühle mich äußerst geehrt, dass Peter Presnell mich in die erlauchte Runde der Lotus Legends eingereiht hat:´

Lotus Legends
http://www.dominoframework.com/DominoFramework.nsf/Lotus_Legends.xsp

Ich möchte aber betonen, dass das assono Framework 2 ein Ergebnis unseres gesamten Teams ist. Insbesondere Bernd Hort hat große Teile des Frameworks entwickelt und beeinflusst.

15.12.2009

Frühes Weihnachtsgeschenk: Lotus Sametime 8.5 kommt am 22. Dezember

Category: Lotus Sametime

Zwei Tage vor Weihnachten kommt endlich die auf der diesjährigen Lotusphere angekündigte Version 8.5 von IBM Lotus Sametime.

Benutzer werden sich über die noch einfachere Bedienung und noch bessere Integration freuen.
Administratoren dürften wohl die "download-freien" Online-Meeting begrüßen.
Und als Entwickler freue ich mich schon auf die neuen APIs, um Sametime-Funktionen viel einfacher in eigene Web-Anwendungen einzubinden.

Hier die Ankündigung von IBM:
IBM Lotus Sametime Entry and Standard 8.5 make unified communications simple and effective
http://www-01.ibm.com/cgi-bin/common/ssi/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&htmlfid=877/ENUSZP09-0447
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07.12.2009

Compatibility between Domino 8.5.1 and BES 4.1.7 is confirmed

Category: BlackBerry Lotus Domino Administration

As we faced the question of compatibility between Domino 8.5.1 and BES 4.1.7, we had to look for users with experience in this matter.
Those seem to be very good, so that the following piece of information is a mere bonus.
Last week RIM updated the compatibility-matrix and therefore confirmed compatibility.

Als bei uns kürzlich die Frage nach der Kompatibilität von Lotus Domino 8.5.1 und  BES 4.1.7 anlässlich eines möglichen Updates auf Domino 8.5.1 aufkam, mussten wir uns erst einmal auf die Suche machen und nach Erfahrungsberichten forschen.
Die scheinen erwartungsgemäß durchweg gut zu sein, so dass die folgende Info eigentlich mehr ein netter Bonus ist.
Denn RIM hat am 2. Dezember die Kompatibilitätsmatrix (was für eine Fingerbrecher) aktualisiert und darin die Kompatibilität offiziell bestätigt.
Zu finden hier.

Dank geht an dieser Stelle an RIM (und vermutlich auch indirekt an IBM für die Kooperation mit RIM) für eine recht zügige Aktualisierung auch angesichts Minor-Releases - ich hatte damit eigentlich nicht wirklich gerechnet.