The first thing we’ll do is set up your Eclipse environment. I used the RCP edition of Eclipse Ganymede (3.4). I’m sure it’ll also work in other versions but I have not tested those. I’ve only tested on the Lotus Notes Client 8.5.1.

We need to add the Notes JVM for Eclipse to use. The target platform also has to be configured as well as the launch configuration.

When you’re done you should have a working Eclipse environment in which you can develop and test Lotus Notes Client plug-ins. This means you can press the run button and Eclipse will start a Notes Client and run the plug-in in that client. Make sure no Lotus Notes Client instances are open before you run your plug-in project or you’ll get an authorization error.

The next step is to create a plug-in. Create a new Eclipse Plug-in Project and base it on the view template. Make sure to add the ‘com.ibm.notes.java.api‘ dependency to your project. And don’t forget to include the Notes.jar library if you want to be able work with Notes databases in your project.

Eclipse plug-ins work based on extension points. We can extend the menu, toolbars, help, preferences … We now created a plug-in based on the view template. Eclipse can show these views almost anywhere. But for us to show it in the Notes sidebar we have to create another extension based on the com.ibm.rcp.ui.shelfViews. We can then link our view to this one and it will be shown in the sidebar.

With our plug-in up and running, we’ll need a way to make it distributable. And we have to be able to install it into any Lotus Notes Client.

Make a new Feature Project and add our plug-in to it. Afterwards make a new Update Site Project and add our feature to it. Don’t forget to build the plug-ins or you’ll have an empty site.

In your Notes Client, install a new application, add a folder and browse to your site (the folder containing site.xml). You’ll get all the features in this site with each feature displayinh its plug-ins.

Eclipse (and thus the Lotus Notes Client) works with features. Each feature contains one or more plug-ins. You need an update site to make your feature available. A feature is the actual plug-in, integrated into Eclipse.

You should now have a simple view – plug-in that you can install into any Notes 8.5.1 client.

This concludes my first post. Have fun extending

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A full description + download file is available here:

http://www.mindoo.de/web/blog.nsf/dx/30.01.2010154312KLEKA4.htm

Installation:
Download and unzip the update-sites zip.
In Notes: File – Application – Install -> select the location of the unzipped files.
After install, the installer asks to restart Notes. After restarting, the updated menu is not there. So you need to
restart Notes manually in order to have it working.

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Well, here you go :

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IBM has announced Lotus Notes Traveler Companion.  It’s IBM first application available on the iPhone

Available at no charge. Traveler Companio allows iPhone users to read encrypted LN Mail.

The fixpack which allows this is available for download ( FP for Traveler 8.5.1 ).

You also get support for basic calendar workflow on the iPhone ( you can accept & decline meetings ).

Secondly, IBM announced a plan to deliver a LN Traveler Client for Android.

Android is a different challenge Vs IBM’s other mobile platforms.

The 2010 plans for Traveler :

- support for the LN Traveler Server Component on Linux

- a new mobile installer that simplifies issues with different ND and device version management

- plans for Foundations to include LN Traveler

Side-news : IBM Will also be reselling the RIM blackberry component that support Quickr and Connections. RIM also announced that they are using LN Software for their internal use

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By creating a new folder in Windows 7 in a specific way, users get a place where they can customize everything, from the appearance of the mouse pointer to creating a new partition.

This trick is also reported to work under Windows Vista, though there are posts that the 64-bit version of Vista does crash. For the 32-bit version, this God-mode should work.

To activate this mode, you create a new folder and name it the following:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Once that happened, the icon of the folder changes and the folder will contain more than 280 configuration options.

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IBM launched a new worlwide marketing campaign to get more visibility for our beloved brand!

Check out www.lotusknows.com to discover the world of IBM Lotus!

I have to warn you, once you’re a Lotus addict, there is no way back

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Some of the users on the Foundations server had to be upgraded to roaming users (Notes roaming). It took me quite a while before this actually worked. When I upgraded an existing user on the Enterprise server to roaming, it worked within ten minutes. But when I did the same for a user on the Foundations server, it always ended up in tears (aka: not working).

After some searching and digging on the web, I finally found a solution. For some reason, roaming just wouldn’t work if the files were  on the Foundations server itself. When I put them on the Enterprise server, everything seemed to work. Putting the roaming files on the Enterprise server will ofcourse cause a longer startup time if the user logs on for the first time, as the Enterprise server is probably off-site.

So in short:
You have to upgrade the user to roaming on the Enterprise server, select the Enterprise server as the roaming server, and then replicate this to the Foundations server (that, in combination with a few “tell adminp process new” commands).
By default, if you upgrade a user to roaming, it selects the mailserver of that user as the roaming server. So be sure to change this for a user on Foundations to the Enterprise server!

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Setting up an Subversion server is fairly easy. On most Linux distributions, you can install it via the packet manager that comes equipped with it. At our company, we run Subversion on CentOS with Apache.

For added security, we require users to authenticate if they want to access the repositories. You can add these users manually with htaccess files, but why do that if you already have all the users listed in the Domino directory? Having multiple user accounts for the same user, scattered over different server, only makes things more complex. So I decided to extract them from our Domino server via LDAP.

To add authentication, I added the following paramters in the configuration of Apache.
First, specify that you want to use LDAP for authentication:

AuthBasicProvider ldap
AuthType Basic
AuthzLDAPAuthoritative off
AuthName “SVN”
require valid-user

AuthBasicProvider ldap and AuthType Basic will tell Apache/Subversion to use LDAP for authentication. With AuthzLDAPAuthoritative off, you tell Apache that LDAP does not decide who has access and who doesn’t. In our case, LDAP just has to pass user information. AuthName is just a title for the login popup. require valid-user speaks for itself I think.

Next, we come to the actual connection. This has to be built up like this:

AuthLDAPUrl “ldap://hostname:port/basedn?attribute?scope?filter” NONE

basedn defines where you want to search in LDAP. attribute is what will match the username  to what the user types in the login popup. scope tells LDAP how deep it has to search in the directory. Put this on “sub” so it will search the entire tree. Finally,  filter defines what objects should be returned. Put this on “(objectClass=*)” to return all objects.

On our server the URL looks like this:

AuthLDAPUrl “ldap://ldap.groupwave.be:389/O=GroupWave?CN?sub?(objectClass=*)” NONE

To find the correct URL for your server, I suggest you use an LDAP browser tool like Softerra LDAP Browser. Getting the URL right by trial and error in Apache, can be a very tiresome job.

These extra parameters should be enough to add Domino LDAP authentication to your Subversion server.

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This site is running on domino. This is how I accomplished this:

1. Create a java agent to read the rss feed.
2. On the web page, use an XmlHttpRequest to call the agent and get the XML.
3. Also in javascript: parse the XML to HTML and put in a div on the website.

The code for step 2 and 3, you can see on our website: just download the javascript code (we use dojo as a framework).

Step 1 is also fairly simple. Here is the most important part of the code:

Session session = getSession();
AgentContext agentContext = session.getAgentContext();
PrintWriter pw = getAgentOutput();
pw.println("Content-type: text/xml; charset=utf-8");
URL labs = new URL("http://labs.groupwave.be/index.php/feed/");
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(labs.openStream()));
String inputLine;
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
pw.println(inputLine);
in.close();

The tricky part for me was the get past our proxy server. I was testing this code on my local domino server meaning that the proxy server had to be used to access the internet (and the feed). I tried modifying the server document and setting the agent security to allow unrestricted operations. To no avail.

Then I found out that the java.policy file (in the ‘jvm/lib/security’ folder) has to be modified to allow java to modify system settings. And that’s what’s needed to set up the proxy server in java:

java.util.Properties sysProps = System.getProperties();
sysProps.put("proxySet", "true");
sysProps.put("proxyHost", "proxy.iconos.be");
sysProps.put("proxyPort", "8080");

This is what you need to add in the java.policy file to get this to work (in the ‘grant’ section – “default permissions granted to all domains”):

permission java.security.AllPermission
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "proxySet", "write";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "proxyHost", "write";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "proxyPort", "write";

Hope this helps some of you…

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