This week the "Creating and Deploying a Java Plugin for Notes and Symphony" lab from Lotusphere has been added to the Notes and Domino wiki by Shane Kilmon, an excellent IBMer who was helped me a lot with a plugin development project of my own at the end of last year. Those who have used the Extension Library controls or are aware of the developments coming with 8.5.3 will be aware of the power of plugins to XPages development. Those who have used something like File Navigator will be aware of the power of plugins for ...
Towards the end of last year we were asked about undertaking a Notes client plug-in development project. At the time my plug-in development experience was zero. Apart from a brief look at the source code of the Extension Library source code, my only other Eclipse experience was from about six years ago using the XML editors. And the sum total of my Java experience was four hours in evening classes about six years ago, that brief investigation of the XPages Extension Library and about two years experience of Server-Side JavaScript. I know that SSJS is not Java, but I list that in my ...
Recently I haven't been blogging as much as I would like, mainly because I've had my head down working hard on my first bit of plug-in development. Considering that I've rarely used Eclipse in the past and only even written Java in an IT course over five years ago, it's been a challenge, but one I seem to have successfully overcome with some help. And when I haven't been doing plug-in development I've been working on my Lotusphere session, trying to get some progress again on my book and thinking about my sessions for EntwicklerCamp next month. But now that's all ...
