Notes/Domino Application Development Competitive Advantage - UKLUG 2011 Edition

Domino Applicat ion Developm ent
Compet it ive Advant age

Presenters: John Head, PSC Group, LLC
& Ted Stanton, IBM

John Head
Facebook.com/johndhead Facebook.com/PSCGroup
jhead@psclistens.com
Twitter.com/johnhead Twitter.com/PSCGroup
1051 Perimeter Drive
LinkedIN.com/in/johndhead Linkedin.com/company/psc-group-llc
Suite 500
Schaumburg, IL 60173 Slideshare.com/johndhead Slideshare.com/PSCGroup

Youtube.com/johnhead Youtube.com/PSCGroup
(847) 517-7200
(847) 517-7600 fax

www.johndavidhead.com

www.pscgroup.com

PSC Group, LLC

Host of the following blogs:
 Ed Brill’s
(www.edbrill.com)
Facebook.com/PSCGroup  Lotus Design Blog(Mary Beth Raven)
(www.notesdesign.com)
Twitter.com/PSCGroup  LotusStaffNotes (Brent Peters)
(www.lotusstaffnotes.com)
Linkedin.com/company/psc-group-llc
 Lotus Connections Team
Slideshare.com/PSCGroup (synch.rono.us)
 Domino Server Team
Youtube.com/PSCGroup
(www.dominoblog.com)
 Lotus Mashups
(www.mix-and-mash.com)
 Chris Pepin – IBM CTO’s Office
(www.chrispepin.com)

Ted Stanton,
IBM Collaboration Solutions Group
Executive, IBM Software Group

• Started IBM as a Software Engineer for messaging protocols (NRPC & SMTP) back in R4.
• Wrote a thesis paper years ago titled: “SPAM – The Future of Email”
• Strategic Premium Service Manager supporting a large Telecommunications company in US
• 20+ IBM Product Certifications
• Award winning patent for "Improved Method for Showing and using the Value of Tags and Other
Artifacts in a Social Tagging System."
• Product Manager for IBM Connections
• Husband and father of 2 boys

Agenda

• Domino Application Development Today – “not your Father's Designer”
– Advantages of Domino over Microsoft Sharepoint

• Notes from the field – PSC's real world experiences

• Domino Application Development Tomorrow - The IBM Social Business Toolkit

Let's talk about Domino applications
but not these Domino applications, please...

Designer 8.5 - a world-class RAD environment

Business-process-driven applications that enable people to collect, organize, share, and track
information.

● Open, point and click GUI development
environment.
● Support for developers at every skill level – Lotus,
Java, Eclipse
● Bundled templates that require no coding to use
● Component reusability saves time and increases
responsiveness
● Centralized administration for quick deployment and
easy maintenance
● Pervasive security
● Universal access: online or offiline, Rich client or
web client.
● Integrate multiple data sources

Thousands of enterprises around the globe trust their core collaborative and business
applications to Lotus Notes and Domino.

N o te s Apps “b y th e n u m b e rs ”:

● 280,000 active developers

● $45m investment by IBM since
2007

● 10,000,000 applications in use

● 64,000 developers and 200 projects
active in open source community
 Discussion databases  Inventory and project management
 Community forums  Process tracking
 Document storage and collaboration  Sales force automation
 Customer relationship management  Product catalogs and price lists
 Help desk and customer support  Billing systems
 Human resources  Audit and assessment

Today's Notes/Domino offers the easiest, fastest and richest development of Web 2.0 apps.

To this with xPages - Jacobs eLite 2.0

Agenda

• Domino Application Development Today – “not your Father's Designer”
– Advantages of Domino over Microsoft Sharepoint

• Notes from the field – PSC's real world experiences

• Domino Application Development Tomorrow - The IBM Social Business Framework

Reasons not t o move Not es
apps t o Shar ePoint
• Claims heard about why one should move to Sharepoint
– SharePoint could easily replace the Rapid Application development feature set of Lotus Notes
– SharePoint is self service driven and therefore will need less development resources than a
new Lotus Notes environment

• While in reality
– What most consider to be simple Notes client applications often require moderate to
significant development effort that cannot be done with SharePoint Designer and require
Visual Studio and .Net development skills
– Complex applications with business logic and workflow are not suitable for SharePoint and
require .Net development and additional Microsoft products to provide the same level of
capability you get in one product (Lotus Domino)

P la tfo rm Ca pa b ility Lotus Notes/Domino Microsoft SharePoint

Messaging Built in messaging services Requires Exchange
tailored for applications.

Data storage Data store is fully integrated with Data storage relies an SQL
the platform and no additional server and unexpected additional
cost cost must be considered

Replication Ability to have fine grained None
control to replicate data over
distributed server environment

Applica tio n Ca pa b ility Lotus Notes/Domino Microsoft SharePoint

Securing access to Fine grained control at the doc Very limited to no capability to
document data field or section level hide/secure data at this level

Workflow Simple to complex workflow can Simple workflows can be created
be built in Designer using data, in Sharepoint Designer. More
security and messaging services complex workflows require .Net

Event model XPages and Notes forms Events tied to list actions can be
provide robust event model added but require C#

Offline access Industry leading ability to take Limited offline support
data and business logic offline
securely

Recommendat ion

Bring your Notes client applications to the
Web with Xpages
● Preserves your investment in your current application's data and business logic while
providing a Web 2.0 developer experience
● Provides browser and mobile access and still allows you to take that application
securely offline with all application logic available using the Notes client
● Expands the reach of your Domino applications to other IBM platforms like
WebSphere Portal and IBM Mashup Center thru iWidgets

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• Founded in 1990 • Primary Offerings
• Consistent Growth and Stability • Business Consulting
• Committed to our Client’s Success • Strategy Creation and Planning
• Employee Delivery Model • Business Process Improvement
• Thought Leaders
• Technology Consulting
• Application Development
• Business & Technology Consulting
• Service Oriented Architecture
• “Business First” Approach
• Enterprise Intelligence
• Focus on Project-based work
• Web Solutions
• Pragmatic, Value-Add principles
• Mobile and Social Media

Who We Are
©2011 Property of PSC Group, LLC 20

We have extensive experience in Industry:
Manufacturing, Insurance, Retail, Distribution, Financial Services, Trading/Capital Markets, Banking, M&A, Health
Care, Services, Online Services/Retailers.

We are Experts in processes:
IT Strategy, IT Management/Governance, Business Process Automation, Supply Chain Management, Search Engine
Optimization, Mobile Application Strategies, CRM, Portfolio/Project Management, Collaboration,
Development/Deployment Methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, etc.), Social Media Strategy, Solution Architecture, etc.

We are well versed with Technology:
Lotus Notes/Domino, WebSphere, Microsoft (.NET, SharePoint, C#, etc.), Java/J2EE, Oracle Weblogic, SQL Server,
Oracle Portal, Oracle Database, Python, Django,Cloud Platforms (Amazon, Force, etc.), Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft
CRM, Open Source, iPhone, BlackBerry ... and many more

What We Do
©2011 Property of PSC Group, LLC 21

 We are at an application crossroad
 Email has become a commodity
 Domino or Exchange
 Cloud or On Premises or Hybrid
 Email and application platforms being broken apart
 New platforms
 Smartphones are common place
 Tablets are here and growing

THE Question - What about my apps?
©2011 Property of PSC Group, LLC

 End User expect consumer Web 2.0 Experiences at work

 End Users will find their own solutions if applications are not updated

 Corporate IT must modernize or become irrelevant

End Users Expect Modern Applications


Documents & Discussions Enterprise Applications Business Applications

• 40% of total apps • 10% of total apps • 50% of total apps
• Based on Templates that come • Highly transactional or huge • Mission Critical
with Domino volumes of data • Organization Unique
• Recommendation: • Recommendation: • Heavy use of custom workflow
• Move to standard • Rebuild on top of Enterprise and/or security
platforms/apps Java, .NET or other • Recommendation:
• Update with new XPages technology • Move to the web via XPages
Templates from IBM (2011)
• Use third party tool(s)
• LotusLive Engage
• Other Offerings

Existing Domino Application Types

 You should
 Maximize your investment in Lotus technology!
 Modernize your applications
 Make your users happy with appealing look-and-
feel of applications
 Develop once, use many times
 Extendyour applications to the web and mobile
devices with XPages

Leveraging The Lotus Platform

 Modern Notes apps have:
◦ Appealing Web 2.0 front-end
◦ Modern Business Processes
◦ Standard Corporate Web Branding
◦ User Self Service
 Techniques used
◦ Web 2.0 Tools
 HTML
 JavaScript
 AJAX
 Java Toolkits
 Sencha
 jQuery
◦ XPages


• ‘Develop Once, Use Multiple Places’ is
finally reality
• Works in Notes Client, Browser, & Mobile
• XPages is developer friendly
• Notes developers with web dev skills can transition
easily
• Web developers can pick up XPages with basic
Domino training
• New Hires / College Grads can pick up XPages
development with a week of training

Why XPages?


Standard Notes Document Library

Modernization with XPages

Notes Client Application

Notes Client Custom Application

1. Take an existing Notes Client Application
2. Catalog the Notes Client Assets
3. Create XPages Application
4. Create Custom Theme
5. Build Mobile Interface
6. Compare with SharePoint application

Notes Client to XPages


XPages Document Workflow
in Notes Today

• 1 User Form – Agreement
• 4 Dialogs
• 5 System Forms – Keywords, Lookups
• 30 User Views
• 17 System Views
• Workflow & Business Logic
• 20 Agents
• 2 Script Libraries
• Export to Excel for Reporting
• User Interface Elements

XPages Document Workflow Details


XPages Document Workflow
with XPages UI

XPages Document
Workflow XPages
Interface for Mobile

• Uses the OpenNTF.org Mobile Controls Project
• Provides Custom UI for iPhone and other mobile devices

• Created a New XPages Interface
• Created Custom Theme with custom branding and
color scheme
• Only Interface Changes
• Home Page
• Document Workflow Form
• Views
• No changes to Workflow or Business Rules
• Used the XPages Mobile Controls on OpenNTF.org for
iPhone interface

XPages UI Details


Notes:

1. Custom Theme is a one time effort. Can be reused by all future XPages Applications
2. Mobile Controls were created as Custom Controls that can be reused

XPages Development Results


• Same Notes Client application
• Document tasks to build feature comparable
SharePoint application
• Use SharePoint development best practices that PSC
uses with our customers
• Estimate development costs

Comparing XPages to SharePoint

• Create SharePoint Site
• Create Agreement Form & Dialogs
• Create Web Parts & Reports
• Create Keyword Lookup Lists
• Build Windows Workflows (not SharePoint Designer)
• Implement Security – Groups and Building Form Filters
• Build Excel Export
• Move Data using Third-Party Tool
• Create Master Page
• Create iPhone on top of SharePoint Mobile Extension

SharePoint Development Estimates

SharePoint Development Estimates

• PSC recommends Windows Workflow over SharePoint Workflow using
SharePoint Designer due to it’s quality and support
• iPhone development would be ASP.NET development talking to SharePoint Web
Services
• Security would use Active Directory Groups and function by applying Filters to
parts of the Form
• Data Export using Third Party tools would include documents, field data, and
attachments
• Master Page Estimate includes colors, corporate branding, logo, and simple
menu changes

SharePoint Development Estimates Notes


 Your users are demanding modern applications in the

workplace

 Smartphones and Tablets will force you to embrace Web 2.0

development platforms and techniques

 XPages is a mature web application platform

 You don't have to migrate to get Web 2.0 and Mobile

Application Modernization in 2011

Overview

The IBM Social Business Toolkit, as part of
the multi-year vision for Exceptional Work
Experience, is bringing the IBM Collaboration
Solutions portfolio together into a compelling
unified experience with flexible delivery
options.

The toolkit is designed to enable consistent
approaches across the web, the desktop and
the mobile environments; and enable
opportunity and innovation for developers to
build a Social Business.

The toolkit delivers through a regular
cadence of product updates and new
features through Lotus Greenhouse.

Principles

Opportunity Convergence
Unifying the experience to best meet
Making possible the next generation of individual needs across access and delivery
solutions built on an open foundation models

Innovation Continuity
Building on today's capabilities for a smooth
Empower People in new and Innovative
path to tomorrow
Ways

What is the Toolkit?

● A set of APIs which adds Social capabilities to applications, and enables developers to integrate
applications into Social capabilities.
● The toolkit does not any particular tool or implementation
The toolkit implements an HTTP-based REST style.
● The Toolkit includes emerging services.

Open Standards

Data
● Atom – Feeds
● ActivityStrea.ms – Events Feed
● CMIS – Content Access
View
● OpenSocial – Gadgets / Feeds
● HTML 5 – Web Standard
● OpenAjax – Dynamic HTML and XML
Security
● OAuth – Authorization
● SAML – Authentication

Security

People and Identity Application and Process
● SAML - Authentication ● Least Privilege
● OAuth - Authorization ● Defense in Depth
● Integrated Single Sign On ● White Listing
● Active Content Filters
● Secure Gadgets

Aggregation Service
Matt sent you a Paul sent an
Rob tweeted
file invite
• Implements the ActivityStrea.ms Standard
• Use REST APIs to interact with your activity
James
stream ERP has an Social Network edits your
action for you Invitation
document
– Use JSON
– Use ATOM
• Post new events Isabel shares a CRM has a new A shared file has
file sale a comment
• Retrieve all or a subset of events
• Delete events
1000s of Events
• Update events

Activity Stream

Embedded Experience

• Embedded Experiences enables
users to intelligently respond to
events.
– In-line coordination of services
and actions
– View your events in your
activity stream
• Uses the OpenSocial Gadget
framework

OpenSocial Gadget

● Use the HTML and XML Markup to define your
OpenSocial Gadget
● Add the contextualData field
<UserPref name="contextualData"
display_name="contextualData"
datatype="hidden" default_value="{}">
</UserPref>

● Load the Preferences using JavaScript
● Render using your Logic

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e

Scenarios

1 - Unified Communications Partner 2 - Electronic Signature Partner
Samantha leaves a phone message for John. Frank has completed a proposal and needs James to
sign off on it.
John sees an event in his news feed.
James see an event in his news feed
John clicks play on the event
James clicks review document and a canvas pops up.
John listens to the Audio
James signs the document.

Scenarios continued...

● 3 - Travel Application

The Renovations company is a leading Travel
provider. As a leading travel provider they are
updating clients in real time. The real time updates
occur in enterprise news feeds, online social
networks and in activity streams.
Frank schedules a trip to a corporate conference
Frank sees in his activity stream the information of
Frank's travel.
• Initial Information
• Travel updates

http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/lotus/sbtoolkit/gadgettut/ee_intro.html

The Social Enabler Project XPages

● A set of controls and interfaces which
enable a developer to integrate with:
OAuth
Aggregation Service
Integrate with Connections
Project User Interface Components
● Uses an Apache License
● Integrate with Greenhouse
● Build your own integrations

http://socialenabler.openntf.org/

Next st eps f or Not es/ Dom ino developer s
• Learn to use XPages
– It is the strategic direction for N/D application development
– Start from http://xpages.info
– Download ready-to-use libraries and components from openNTF.org
• XPages Extension Library, Mobile controls, Connections components...

• Invest into the new technology trends
– HTML5, CSS
– Mobile platforms
– JavaScript, Dojo
– Gadgets, iWidgets, OpenSocial

• Start to use Java pervasively
– XPages business logic, agents...
– Discover the power and flexibility of OSGi
• Java tasklets from openNTF, XPages Extensibility API

• Join the IBM Social Business Toolkit Community
– https://greenhouse.lotus.com/communities/community/ibmsocialbusinesstoolkit

• Download the Social Enabler Project
– http://socialenabler.openntf.org/

XPages Jumpstart for Notes Developers

1) Get the Mastering XPages Book
1). http://www.ibmpressbooks.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0132486318

2)Enter IBM6318 as the coupon code for 35% off

2) Follow the Podcasts
1) http://notesin9.com

2) http://thexcast.net/

3) Work thru Declan Lynch's XPages Tutorial
1) http://www.qtzar.com/blogs/qtzar.nsf/Document.xsp?documentId=A97DB47B9BEDB9868525756F005BC3C3&action=openDocument

Summar y
• Social Business applications build on our heritage...

• ...but Social Business today demands new types of applications
– Beyond the firewall
– Systems of systems
– Both Cloud and on-premises

• The IBM Social Business Framework enables IBM customers and partners to capitalize on Social

Business opportunities
– All IBM collaboration products are part of the framework
– Big opportunities for general web developers and established Lotus developers, building on their existing skills

• The new IBM Social Business Toolkit are planned to enable a new class of unified social capabilities

based on the latest born-on-the web open standards
– Consistent extensibility across products, deployment models and user experiences

• Easy to get started with today's products and

cloud developer options

Some Addit ional Resour ces
• DeveloperWorks
– http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/
– http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/community/wikis.html

• Greenhouse
– https://greenhouse.lotus.com

• openNTF.org
– http://www.openntf.org

• xpages.info
– http://xpages.info/XPagesHome.nsf/Home.xsp

• Videos – Youtube, VideoFest...
– https://greenhouse.lotus.com/wikis/home?
lang=en#/wiki/W6696b8ac7465_4a5f_9327_94f1a5d82132/page/VideoFest

• Resources also provided by the community
– http://xpages.tv/, http://xpagesblog.com/...

Quest ions and Your Feedback

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John Head Ted Stanton

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