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Bill F posed a good question on StackOverflow about the issue of object.recycle and when to use it. It’s un understandable question and one I hit years ago after crashing a server looping through 20,000 documents in a search. I raised a PMR, got a response directing me to technotes on recycling in Java. Searching […]

Some time ago I wrote about how you have to build twice if you have Build Automatically switched off, then open an application in Designer and make a change – the first build was incremental. Just to revisit, I would always recommend having Build Automatically switched off unless you’re in an instance of Designer that […]

Today there was a question on StackOverflow about how to trigger an eventHandler of control A from control B. I knew I’d done it before, but couldn’t remember where and couldn’t find where I’d blogged on it. So here is the way I originally did it and the better way. The Padawan’s Way Once you […]

There have been a few questions lately on StackOverflow trying to troubleshoot activity during the initial page load. So I thought I’d write a post to try to clarify the process. This certainly helps me pre-empt some functionality and provides an explanation for some of the questions I’ve seen. Using code from Jesse Gallagher’s XPages […]

In a recent project I’ve extended the document wrapper Tim Tripcony showed in his NotesIn9 series on XPages and Java. Previously I’ve just used the dominoDocument datasource on the XPage. Today I was battling with a problem when editing a document that had been created in Notes. I was getting the very helpful message “Validation […]

A few months ago Tim Tripcony blogged about a component’s binding property which was followed up with a NotesIn9 episode. On Tim’s blog, Jesse Gallagher asked if it had led to any cool app-structuring breakthroughs. While preparing some XPages training materials, I realised there was one cool use of a component’s binding property that is […]

Last week Jesse Gallagher blogged about using enums in a combo box. For those who are not familiar with enums, if you’ve started using Java it’s well worth reviewing the article where I covered them. Thankfully I was involved in a chat around that topic with Jesse and Nathan. I had previously written code to […]