My presentation from the Belgian Lotus User Group 2011 (1 hour edition)

1. Belux Lotus User Group 2011 Antwerp, Belgium Plug yourself in and your applications will never be the same! (An introduction to plugin development for Lotus Notes, Domino and Sametime)

3. Design Partner for Domino NEXT and Lotus Connections 3.0

4. Active blogger: lekkimworld.com

5. Speaker at Lotusphere

6. Articles for THE VIEW

7. E-mail: mh@intravision.dk

8. .com/lekkim

10. It's about extending the UI in Notes, Sametime and Symphony

11. It's about delivering a UI capable of doing stuff you cannot do in ”traditional” Notes

12. It's about developing custom components for the XPages Extensibility Library

13. It's about DOTS (previously JAVADDIN) and OSGi on the Lotus Domino Server

14. What's possible with plugins

16. ...or use the bit.ly link >> http://bit.ly/pluginredwiki

19. One button reads contacts from names.nsf

21. Create document

22. Set subject

24. Create an update site with the feature

25. Create a widget for the feature from the update site

27. Installing Lotus Expeditor Toolkit

28. Plugin Development Basics

29. Building UI's with SWT and JFace

30. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

31. Time to build some stuff...

32. Resources / Q&A

33. Eclipse architecture Workbench JFace SWT Core Extension Point Framework Service Framework Rich Client Platform Plug-in Plug-in Extension Pt. Plug-in Extension Point Extension Point Extension Point A software component in Eclipse Extension Point declares contract to extend plug-in functionality Extension code extends this functionality RCP allows you to build GUI apps on multiple OS SWT provides uniform UI API across multiple OS that calls OS UI API for native look and feel JFace provides components to make it easier to write a GUI e.g. wizards, preference pages, actions, dialogs Workbench is desktop UI and customizable Service Framework supports registration and lifecycle management of plug-ins

34. IBM Lotus Clients – built on Eclipse Sametime Expeditor Apps and Plug-ins (ISV + Customer) Notes Symphony Industry knowledge and experience ecosystem of partners open and extensible collaborative services Integrated applications Portal Browser Desktop Mobile Multiplatform support Scalability Security

35. Eclipse workbench

36. Notes workbench s

38. FREE! No charge to use the Expeditor toolkit

44. Browse to unziped update site

45. Select OK

47. Click Install...

49. Install all features

50. Restart

54. Run -> Run Configuration

55. Double Click Client Services

56. Give The Configuration A Name

57. Select Run

59. By themselves plugins may not do anything, but when you start combining plugins you can build very powerful applications

60. Examples: Eclipse, Notes, Sametime, Symphony Application Plugin

64. Files used for translation

65. Images

66. etc....

72. The arcane art of building UI's

76. Protection from OS Level Changes

77. Very responsive

78. Resulting UI looks like native platform applications

79. Meet WindowBuilder! http://eclipse.org/windowbuilder/

82. To tell the caller we're done we use callbacks or listeners

83. Harder to grasp

84. Used in AJAX – you request data in the background and once the data has been fetched you are told

86. Allows for easy background processing

87. Very simple to use

88. Allows scheduling of jobs (“run this code in 2 minutes”)

89. Allows weaving of jobs

90. Allows for listening to job status etc.

94. It's – surprise, surprise – called the “UI thread”

96. Attempts to access the UI (i.e. set the text of a label) outside the UI thread will fail with an exception

98. Using Job in code public void fireOnTheEmpire(int initDelay, final String jediName) { // create recurring job to poll web service new Job("Poll the Force!") { protected IStatus run(IProgressMonitor monitor) { // invoke endpoint using input String srvc = “http://moon5.tatooine.com/JediFinder”; WSFacade facade = new WSFacade(srvc); String result = facade.fire(jediName); // do something with the result ... // reschedule this job (in 5 mintues) this.schedule(5 * 60 * 1000); // return return Status.OK_STATUS; } }.schedule(initialDelay * 60 * 1000); } final

101. You perform some background operation (e.g. load data from a web service or similar)

103. We do it by nesting Job instances

104. Let us build something!

105. DOTS (used to be JAVADDIN)

106. XPages Extensibility Library ” A new project has been created which contains a simple sample for how to to develop a 'native' XPages control via the Java extensibility API. This control can be deployed globally as an OSGi bundle/plugin to Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes/Domino Designer and then used in all NSFs without having to put the code in all NSFs redundantely. The new control shows up in the palette in Designer as other out of the box controls.”

108. HIGHLY recommended article on the Job API >> http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Concurrency/jobs-api.html

109. Eclipse articles >> http://www.eclipse.org/articles

110. Eclipse WindowBuilder >> http://www.eclipse.org/windowbuilder

112. How do I?

113. Doesn't that mean?

114. Give it to me! :-)