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Thoughts on the Problem of XPages

Jesse Gallagher posted a thoughtful blog about the challenges for the way forward with XPages. It’s a challenge I’ve had a number of discussions around, many of which are ongoing. The reason there’s not a simple solution – throw whatever resources are required into XPages – is that it simply doesn’t make business sense. There […]

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SSJS Revisited: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

It is a number of years now since I decided to commit to Java, for a number of reasons. The biggest were: lack of good compile-time validation, which meant it was possible to mistype a variable name or method name lack of templating, which meant constantly typing try/catch blocks difficulty troubleshooting – this was before

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OpenNTF Domino API: New Release and Serializing Databases / Documents

Nathan has uploaded a new release of OpenNTF Domino API. There are a few significant differences in the upload this time. Firstly there is a separate install for Designer Client and Domino Server. That’s to minimise the footprint for the server. Those who have used M4.5 may have noticed the Javadoc support was lost, because

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Understanding SSJS

There have been a few posts today on StackOverflow about SSJS being run when it’s not expected. I think a lot of that comes from a misunderstanding of what’s happening on the server. Parsing of Values Firstly, property values are just plain text.That’s reinforced if you look at the Java class for an XPage or

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Combining $ and #: An Alternative Approach

Over the last couple of days there have been a few discussions about combining Compute on Page Load and Compute Dynamically. The full trails are below: Sven Hasselbach’s initial post My explanation of what’s happening in the source code and Java Sven Hasselbach’s response A possible alternative from Mark Roden Both make good points and

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