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A few weeks ago Stephan Wissel blogged about securing XPages applications using an ANT script and, in a side note, also recommended generating a Javadoc at the same time. For some time I’ve seen the Generate Javadoc… option on the Project menu of Domino Designer. If you’ve ever tried clicking on it, you’ll have found that […]
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Over the next few weeks I shall be rather busy talking about a variety of topics. Tomorrow is the latest OpenNTF Webinar, How did you do that? Hear from the Winners of the XPages App Dev Contest (10am EST). I shall be speaking about XPages OpenLog Logger project – some of the development techniques I used
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XPages provides a number of options for holding global variables at various hierarchical levels. Scoped variables allow data items to be scoped to application, session (browser session), view and request. But the values cannot be calculated dynamically within the map itself. However, they can easily be updated by accessing the map from SSJS or Java
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A few weeks ago Naveen Maurya posted a blog about enabling typeahead content assist for faces-config.xml files. The faces-config formatting is standard for JSF so is available from the Sun / Oracle website under the JavaServer Faces DTDs category. Unfortunately, however, XPages themes resources are not standard. A folder of DTDs has bee provided with
Enabling Typeahead Content Assist in Themes and Using The Eclipse Snippets View Read More »
For some time I’ve been using source control, predominantly for personal projects. The way I’ve used it has changed over time and is still changing. There are a number of source control options, but the ones I’ve used are Mercurial and Git. Personally Git is my preferred option. That’s mainly because when I tried an
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It’s been a busy couple of weeks with me, not least with turning 40 last week! I’d like to thank the judges and everyone else involved in the Appathon and it was wonderful to hear that both projects I’ve been involved with this year were included in the winners. org.openntf.domino has been a big learning
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I blogged a few weeks ago about adding dataProviders for the Value Picker control. Following recent investigations, I managed to get an ArrayList as the source of a simpleValuePicker dataProvider. As I found out, it fails if the valueList property is computed on page load (i.e. “${…}”). The error thrown, if you investigate in FireBug,
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If you’re writing Java for your XPages applications (and Java tends to be my predominant language for application logic now), there are a couple of libraries well worth being aware of. The first is only of use if you’re using the Extension Library, but to be honest virtually every XPages application I’m working on at
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One of the powerful flexibilities of XPages is that virtually any property can be computed. That’s how it’s taught. But that’s not an apt explanation. A more precise explanation is that virtually any property can be used to run any server-side code, providing it also returns the relevant value. This is an aspect I’ve taken advantage
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Some have noticed that Computed Text controls provide additional content types. The XPages Extension Library book covers the Profiles VCard content type (pp474-7) and the IBM Sametime LiveNames content type (pp471-474). But there are two other content types. Google Search (xs:GoogleSearch) The first to cover is the Google Search content type (xs:GoogleSearch). Paul Hannan explained
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