whats new in dde 8.5

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Themes for Domino Designer 8.5

Domino Designer moves to Eclipse

What is Eclipse? Eclipse is an open source community building an open development

platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimesfor building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle

Users can extend its capabilities by installing plug-ins written for theEclipse software framework

XPages Support

A new runtime that supports building Web 2.0 applications easily and intuitively


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Themes for Notes/Domino 8.5

Notes/Domino meets Web 2.0 !!

What is Web 2.0 ? According to OReilly, Wikipedia et al: Rich internet applications

AJAX, Dojo, CSS

Semantically valid XHTML and HTML markup

Folksonomies (in the form of tags or tagclouds, for example)

Cascading Style Sheets to aid in the separation of presentation and content

REST and/or XML- and/or JSON-based APIs Syndication, aggregation and notification of data in RSS or Atom feeds

Mashups, merging content from different sources

How can I quickly improve the look and feel of my web application?

How do I make my Notes/Domino app a 1st class Web 2.0 citizen?


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The XPages Initiative

XPages in brief

A new Domino design element

A runtime designed to generate modern Web applications

Pure XML markup, defining:

Controls, data sources, business logic, custom controls

Solves age-old limitations expressed by the Domino community UI/Data separation, HTML generation control, server state,

localization, extensibility

Capable of targeting multiple clients

Highly extensible runtime and design time

Standards-based technology: JSF Full integrated into Domino Designer 8.5

Visual Design Page, Source Page, Control Palette, Outline View etc.


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XPages Is Easy

The Simplest Web Page Ever!


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Domino Web Apps since 1996

Discussion Database viewed on a browser todaywithout customization


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Domino Web Apps of the future

Discussion Database rendered using XPages

Dominoview

Actions

Tag cloud

View

Paging

View

Paging

View

Paging


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DEMO II How do we get from A to B ?

From

this

To that


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XPages Markup

Pure XML file format

No JSP tag involved No ugly syntax Easy to process using XML tools

Source code available from the editor

Every property is computable


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CSS Support

Look and feel is driven uniquely by CSS

Enforce consistency between applicationsHelp solving accessibility issues (Section 508 compliant)

XPages feature global references to CSS files

Style classes and inline styles can be applied per Control


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Data Access

XPages introduces a new data source property

A data source can return any kind of object (Pojo, bean, SDO, XML) Data binding is done through scripting languages

XPages extends JSF with custom data binding, like XPath

Connection to Domino data

Done using the public Java API

Exposed objects are the public Java objects (Document, View)

Implicit objects pointing to the current context

session & database global objects

Manages all aspects of Domino data

Documents, Views, Rich Text fields, Attachments


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Built-in Ajax Support

Partial page refresh

Available on any event Pre-built on View Pager

Ajax Typeahead

Add behavior to any text box

Content can be returned via a simple formula

JSF support for custom behaviors

Base classes for writing server services

Dojo is going to be provided as the client side library

Will share some common control with the classic web applications


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XPages Summary

XPages is built on top of JSF, but simplifies JSF in several

important ways: Removes JSP/servlet container dependency

Removes tie to Java

Allows use of scripting languages (JavaScript, XPath,)

Built-in XML support

Adds composite control model

Adds other extensions (data sources, AJAX)

No deployment step needed Works just like other Design Elements

Existing JSF components can be used in an XPage

XPages remains 100% compatible with JSF

XPage/XPages = a code name, subject to future change