OSGi Plugin Troubleshooting

Earlier this week I had a discussion with Graham Acres about an error with ODA. Firstly, there are two scenarios around plugin errors, and it’s important to know the difference: Errors in the “Problems” view in Domino Designer. This is a problem with your Designer client – or the last Designer client the application was …

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Installing ODA Into DDE Without Download

Just before Christmas Jesse Gallagher added directory download support to OpenNTF’s p2 Repository Browser. This means projects like OpenNTF Domino API can be installed into Domino Designer directly from a URL rather than going to OpenNTF and manually downloading the relevant release. It also means it’s possible to get the latest snapshot code as well. …

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Big News for Domino, Connections and OpenNTF

There are signs you can tell summer is over. For us in the northern hemisphere, the weather starts feeling chillier (although it’s been very changeable in UK most of the “summer”). And things start ramping up as people get back from holidays and Q3 comes to an end. We’ve already seen Domino FP9 or Zircon …

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The Awesome New Functionality of ODA Part Two

Part one of this, which covers the background, is here. Before looking at some code, it’s worth just covering performance. Obviously, on a busy production server, if you’re running code for every save of a document, code needs to be optimised. To give you an idea, here’s a snippet of conversation: “About” is good, but …

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ODA Update From IBM Connect: The Awesome New Functionality of ODA

At the end of my OpenNTF Domino API session with Stephan Wissel at IBM Connect, I showed a demo of some experimental new functionality in ODA. Hopefully those who saw it were impressed with the power and potential, especially because part of it reproduced the Watson Workspace notifications integration that the Sapho product showed in …

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Setting Names, Readers and Authors the ODA Way

No matter how long you work with an API, there can still be surprises. Yesterday proved one of those for me. While troubleshooting an issue for someone with setting an Authors field in a document (it turned out there was an obscure bug that meant it was trying to recycle a String in a Vector), …

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XOTS: Background and MultiThreaded Tasks the OpenNTF Domino API Way (Part Four)

It’s been about a year since I last blogged about XOTS. Just to recap, XOTS is a method of running background multi-threaded tasks coded within an NSF. It’s basically DOTS tasklets within XPages. The tasklet extends Runnable if you just want to call it and let it run in the background, or Callable if you …

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From XPages to Web App Part Sixteen: OSGi JAX-RS REST Access with ODA Revisited

Table of Contents Introduction Part One – The Application Part Two – XPages Advanced 1 Part Three: XPages Advanced Database Separation Part Four: XPages Advanced Document Wrapper Part Five: XPages Advanced MVC Controller Part Six: Use of OpenNTF Domino API Part Seven: OSGi Application Development Introduction Part Eight: OSGi JAX-RS REST Access with ODA Part …

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IBM Connect 2016: Anyone for Bingo?

Firstly, a disclaimer, sorry to anyone not attending the conference, this blog post is only relevant to attendees. On Tuesday at 1.15pm in Florida 5 I’ll be delivering my session “Marty, You’re Just Not Thinking Fourth Dimensionally”: Troubleshooting XPages. The session will be XPages-focussed, with an XPages demo application. But there’s more. Back to the …

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Social Connections and CrossWorlds

On Friday I presented on using CrossWorlds for Connections development. It was a great conference with some very illuminating sessions. My session slides are now on SlideShare: Social Connections 2015 CrossWorlds and Domino from Paul Withers

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