AD201 - IBM Domino Application Development Today And Tomorrow

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AD201: IBM Domino Application Development Today And TomorrowPete Janzen, IBMMartin Donnelly, IBM

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Agenda

Introduction Today Futures

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Application Development Priorities

Reduce IT and development costs– Provide tools and runtime that helps companies

realize a greater return on their investment– Support business flexibility and agility

Embrace innovation while preserving investment– Long lasting applications– Choice in platforms and access methods

Bolster partner ecosystem– Make development cost effective– Provide offerings that provide opportunities for ISVs

service providers

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Domino Application Development Themes

Mobile– Provide access to Domino data from mobile device– Realize true vision of build once, run anywhere

Developer productivity– Support new XPages controls in Domino Designer– More easily integrate with disparate data sources

Cloud– Leverage Platform-as-a-Service for Domino Applications– SoftLayer coming

Social– Empower users of Domino applications with social services– Extend Domino apps in social containers with XPages

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2009

Lotus Domino &Designer 8.5.2

Domino DesignerUsability and Productivity

enhancementsXPages

Stability/performance improvementsImproved rich text editing (CKEditor)Dojo 1.4.1Better Notes client integration

APIsXPage extensibility APIsNotes views (JavaTM)

Cloud images for developers 2011

Note: Information is subject to change without notice at IBM’s discretion

IBM Domino & Designer 9.0

Domino DesignerUsability enhancementsXPages hover help

& hyperlinkingServer Side JavaScript debugger

XPagesIncorporate 8.5.3 Upgrade

Pack 1+ into baseEnhanced mobile supportDojo, CKEditor & OneUI upgradeSupport Embedded Experiences using URL mode

APIsDomino Access Services (REST APIs)

RefreshC&S APIs for LotusScript & Java

PlatformExpand OSGi consumption and support in Domino OpenSocial for Notes & iNotes

2010 Lotus Domino &Designer 8.5.3

Domino DesignerSource Control IntegrationNew XPages and Forms/Views

perspectivesUpdate CS JavaScript editorNew Java design element

XPagesStability/performance improvementsImproved rich text editing (CKEditor)Dojo 1.5, CKEditor 3.5.3

APIsXPage extensibility APIs

Cloud images for Applications

2012

Lotus Domino & Designer 8.5.3

Upgrade Pack 1Domino Designer

Extensions for designelements

Support new XPagescontrolsXPages

XPages Extension LibraryEnhanced Mobile device

supportAPIs

Domino Access Services (REST APIs)

20142013


Domino Designer LotusScript and Java editor Working set enhancements Performance

XPages Notes client support iWidget/Component Active content filtering Performance & Scalability

APIs Designer extensibility APIs Notes Documents (Java) DXL enhancements


Domino Designer Eclipse Based IDE XPages Editors ServerSide JavaScript CSS & Theme for rendering

XPages Web 2.0 framework based on

Java/JSF Extensive library of controls Built in Ajax support Dojo JavaScript or Java for

business logic APIs

DXL enhancements

IBM Notes & Domino Application Development

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Developers hitting their stride

Complex appsFrameworks

Incorporating 3rd party assets

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Ecosystem

Developer Community– OpenNTF.org– Stack Overflow– GitHub– Other community sites

XPages Publications– Mastering XPages – over 7000 copies sold worldwide

● Translated to Chinese● Biggest selling IBM Press app dev book● Mastering XPages 2nd Edition

- Estimated publication Q1 2014- Based on 9.0.1- Completely revised + 4 new chapters

New Domino Designer 9 book for Japanese market

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2013 Releases

Domino Designer and Domino 9.0– Server-side JavaScript debugger– XPages® developer productivity enhancements: content assist,

hyperlinking, hover help– XPages extension library incorporated into platform, including:

● Additional rich controls● Mobile controls

– XPiNC enhancements– Calendaring & Scheduling APIs

Domino Designer and Domino 9.0.1– We'll get to this in a moment

OpenNTF– XPages Social Enabler merged into Social Business Toolkit SDK– Twitterbootstrap4XPages

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Today

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Domino Designer 9.0.1

Update to Designer jvm.properties default setting – Installer asserts higher memory configuration

vmarg.Xmx=-Xmx512mvmarg.Xms=-Xms48mvmarg.Xmca=-Xmca512k

Support for the new “Load Java” ECL Attribute

Important Improvements (we heard you ! )– Fixed bugs when saving LotusScript agents– Improved Help Indexing

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High Performance View Navigator

Much more responsive display of deep hierarchical document collections Alternative XPages View Navigator in 9.0.1

– Performs well with heavily populated view categories– Based on new 9.0 Java APIs backend classes and NIF capabilities – View navigation is based on document note ids rather than view position– View behavior closely emulates Notes client– Enabled via an xsp.properties setting (not on by default)

● xsp.domino.view.navigator=ByPosition● xsp.domino.view.navigator=ByNoteId

View markup by note id View markup by position

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XPages Dynamic Search – SEO SupportSearch Engine Optimization

XPages Dynamic Content Control– Dynamically switches content using Ajax– This works well for real users … but

not so well for robots ! 9.0.1 Improvements

– Several popular bots are supported by default

– Designer allows you to customize your bot support

– Runtime now loads default facet on initial page load

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9.0.1 XPages Core Updates

Dojo upgrade to 1.8.3 CKEditor Upgrade to 3.6.6.2 W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level A / AA & US Section 508

Standard XULRunner Upgrade to 10.0.6 (XPiNC)

– Equivalent of upgrading Notes embedded browser from Firefox 3.6.2 to 10.0.6

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Domino Mobile Application Development Provide pervasive access to Notes/Domino

data from your smartphone or tablet Ensures your investment in content is

available when you need it Improve business process efficiency by allowing

decision makers to approve workflows on the go Supports spectrum of mobile application

types

XPages – dedicated mobile controls and support for responsive design

Mobile web Mobile Hybrid Native

XPages IBM Worklight+

numerous tools and servicesfrom IBM business partners

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XPages Mobile Case Studies

Hendricks Regional Health– Using XPages to improve staff scheduling & communication, mobile access to

field protocols for EMTs, an insulin drip calculator and more– Click → Link to case study

Imaging Business Machines, LLC.– Using XPages to modernize existing business applications– Click → Link to case study

VCC – XPages mobile controls provide mobile access to VCC's Endeavor project

management solution– Click → Link to case study

SMC– XPages plus Teamstudio Unplugged allows emplotyees to perform energy

assessments offline with their mobile devices – Attend session CUST104 – Wed 11:15 Pelican 1&2

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/cs/RNAE-8W9LKA?OpenDocument&Site=default&cty=en_us

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/cs/RNAE-923TBU?OpenDocument&Site=corp&ref=crdb

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/cs/KPES-9BMQT6?OpenDocument&Site=lotus&cty=en_us

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XPages Mobile

XPages 9.0.1 supports Dojo 1.8.3– Opportunity to harness Dojo 1.8.3

enhanced mobile features XPages 9.0.1 Mobile

– Improve mobile “look and feel” – Introduce new JavaScript mobile APIs– Deliver a robust mobile experience– Provide more efficient debugging capabilities– Establish an extensible mobile base platform that

can be enhanced via OpenNTF and/or Upgrade Packs

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XPages 9.0.1 Mobile Enhancements Cont'd

New Device Bean– Used to identify the most common mobile and tablet devices– deviceBean.isMobile() / deviceBean.isTablet() / deviceBean.isAndroid() etc

Enhancements & Fixes– Photo/File Upload using Partial Refresh (for Mobile and Web)– Mobile Debug User Agent switch to mimic iOS or Android user agents– MoveTo SimpleAction back button restoring previously loaded mobile view– Mobile view and control resizing and layout enhanced on transition / orientation

changes– Custom mobile Theme inheritance now supported– Custom mobile CSS stylesheet ordering corrected to allow custom precedence

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XPages 9.0.1 Mobile Enhancements Cont'd

Mobile Application & Control Events– Single Page Application onOrientationChange / onResize Events– Application Page onBefore/After Transition In/Out Events

Mobile Themes– Default Mobile Theme and Mobile Theme Overrides for iOS and Android– New OneUI IDX plugin containing IDX v1.3 (not fully supported in all controls)– New mobile theme available oneui_idx_v1.3 Theme– OneUI IDX theme used by TeamRoom and Discussion templates

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Post 9.0.1 Mobile Enhancements

XPages mobile has new features available on OpenNTF– Available in XPages ExtLib project (>= December 12, 2013)– Requires Domino and Domino Designer 9.0.1

Single Page Application Wizard Infinite Scrolling

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Single Page Application Wizard Wizard produces a fully-functional well-structured mobile app:

– No expertise required in mobile design, XPages mechanics or XSP markup specifics! Implements Single Page Application design pattern (aka Single Page Interface)

– Optimal startup-time, fast view switching, quick page navigation, request minimization Enforces XPages Mobile best practices:

– Uses Custom Controls each Application Page– Uses preferred mobile-friendly XPages controls like Data View, Form Table etc

Supports bleeding edge features like infiniteScroll Designed with Future Extensibility in mind

– More data sources may be supported in future (for enterprise and social data)

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XPages Mobile Touch Scrolling

Touch based “infinite” scrolling

Lazy loads the next set of rows using Partial Refresh

Computable infiniteScroll property on the <xe:dataView/> control

Intuitive alternative to “More” button feature

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Domino REST Services

New in 9.0.1 (and on OpenNTF)– Calendar service

● Access a user's calendar over HTTP● Create, read, update, and delete calendar entries.● Simple actions on entries and notices

(accept, decline, counter, delegate, etc.)– Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection across all services– Read a user's password expiration date (and other statistics)

New on OpenNTF only– Freebusy service

● Find free time for a person or resource● Find a free room for a given time slot

– Mail service enhancements including quota and delegation

Domino&

External apps

REST

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XPages – Your On-ramp to Social Business Applications

Integrate social capabilities from IBM Connections, IBM SmartCloud forSocial Busness, Facebook... into XPages applications

XPages social enabler & Social Business Toolkit SDK– Simplifies access to Connections

& SmartCloud for Social Business– Isolates complexity related to

authentication mechanisms– Provides easy to use objects

with many code examples User stories

– Share documents with vendor using Files application in the cloud

– Discover subject matter experts usingConnections Profiles

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Getting Started With Social Business Toolkit SDK

What you need:– Notes/Domino 9.0 or 8.5.3(plus ExtLib)

● http://www.tinyurl.com/IBMDominoDesigner– IBM Social SDK

● http://ibmsbt.openntf.org/ What you should have:

– Access to IBM Connections, e.g.● a greenhouse account on https://greenhouse.lotus.com● an IBM Collaboration QuickStart Image (free 60 day trial)

– Access to other Social platforms● Twitter, Facebook, Dropbox● … you name it !

– Trouble Ticket app from OpenNTF● http://openntf.org/main.nsf/project.xsp?r=project/Trouble%20Tickets%20Notes-to-XPages

%20Example

http://ibmsbt.openntf.org/

https://greenhouse.lotus.com/

http://openntf.org/main.nsf/project.xsp?r=project/Trouble%20Tickets%20Notes-to-XPages%20Example

http://openntf.org/main.nsf/project.xsp?r=project/Trouble%20Tickets%20Notes-to-XPages%20Example

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Futures

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Mobile Web Application Trends

Today– Dedicated mobile controls– Look & Feel that emulate a native experience

Tomorrow– Responsive web design– True Build once, run anywhere

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Mobile First

Responsive web design– Realizing build once,

run anywhere– Increase the number of

XPages controls with responsive renderings

Provide richer experience– Support additional mobile

gestures– Additional events to provide

finer grained control for developers– Improve ability to utilize device

specific services– Progressive enhancement - optionally

configure controls for desktop web or mobile experience(date/time picker vs. spinner)

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XPages Mobile FuturesResponsive By Nature

For Mobile Web Apps, the industry favors a Mobile First approach that is heavily based on “Responsive Web Design” principles

XPages– XPages applications are essentially Mobile Web Apps– XPages should provide a highly responsive control and feature set– XPages responsive controls and feature set should use progressive enhancement

where possible to provide a richer user experience- Touch Gestures (eg: Touch/Lazy scrolling, …)

– Responsive Themes will be key to enabling a highly responsive experience● IBM OneUI Next (“Beyond C4”) / IBM OneUI IDX ● Bootstrap for XPages (http://bootstrap4xpages.openntf.org/)

– Boosted by Server-side Responsive (RESS) capabilities for maximizing leanness and processing

IBM Domino Applications In The CloudWhat's Coming

An expressway for bringing Domino Applications to the cloud − New or existing customer applications− ISV solutions

Leveraging the IBM SoftLayer cloud infrastructure − Automated, Highly Available− Worldwide data center footprint − Pay per use and scale as needed

Work with ISSC and IBM Business Partners to customize and manage

Based on

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IBM Domino Applications In The CloudA Little Bit Deeper Streamline process for standing up Domino in the cloud

– Provision instances of Domino on SoftLayer– Identify common patterns and configure servers

● Hybrid architectures● Add servers to domains

Build applications for on premises or cloud– Same programming model and APIs– Run with hybrid environments– Customers with only Domino applications

Complement with services– ISSC Managed Business Solutions for hosting applications– Partner services for hosting and modernization– ISVs bundling solutions with platform

IBM Domino Applications

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QDiligence – Online D & O Questionnaire Solution Challenge: Automate the completion of Corporate Board Directors and Officers annual

questionnaires– Corporations today perform their D&O process manually

or semi-automatically with MS Word/PDF– Questionnaire prep takes weeks, zero visibility

to completion status, analysis requires manual review of each questionnaire

Solution Description:– IBM Domino XPages application accessed via

mobile devices or desktop browsers– XPages architected to quickly provide fully

customized solutions to multiple companies from a single application

Benefits: – Very fast migration of D&O Questionnaire process online– Up to 80% time/cost reduction in Year 2– Increase in Board of Directors satisfaction

"IBM SoftLayer allowed QDiligence to quickly stand up an optimized cloudbased infrastructure for our Domino based corporate directors and officersquestionnaires solution."- Russell Maher Principal, QDiligence

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Access Connect Online to complete your session surveys using any:– Web or mobile browser – Connect Online kiosk onsite

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