I blogged some time ago about different
types
of XPages developers. One type
of developers are Java developers who use the Eclipse IDE to build their
own extension libraries which can be deployed as OSGi bundles globally
to Domino servers. While this is not as easy as building apps and controls
with Designer it provides more capabilities and allows easy usage in multiple
databases.
Nathan Freeman brought this now to a
new level. His project XSP
Starter Kit has many more samples
and more sophisticated samples.
Additionally Nathan shared some code
that makes it really easy to set up an Eclipse IDE for XPages development:
XPages
SDK for Eclipse. With this project
you don't need the Expeditor toolkit. There is also a wizard to create
your own extension library plugin. Read more in his blog.
When you develop plugins in Eclipse
you can directly debug them (often) without having to redeploy them. Check
out the Debug
Plugin and watch this video.
Thank you to all XPages StackOverflow Contributors
Wed, May 23rd 2012 12:29a Niklas Heidloff At the beginning of this year there
were some discussions
in the XPages community how to reach out to new developers and how to leverage
other communities and web sites. As a result the community suggested to
use StackOverflow for questions and answers.
After 3.5 months 378 questions have
been created under the xpages
tag. Even better, the answer
rates are really good.
Personally I think this demonstrates
well the power and strength of our community. StackOverflow has [read] Keywords: xpages community
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On OpenNTF: CKEditor Plugin to view and edit inline Attachments
Tue, May 22nd 2012 12:32a Niklas Heidloff Weihang Chen has submitted a new project called Inline Attachment CKEditor to the XPages development contest sponsored by the IBM business partner We4IT.
The project contains a plugin to CKEditor which allows viewing and editing attachments inline like in the Notes rich text editor. For this plugin to work against existing Notes documents with rich text fields the project comes with a migration tool which extracts the attachments and puts them in separate documents. [read] Keywords: ibm
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On OpenNTF: Generic Tree Navigator
Mon, May 21st 2012 12:49a Niklas Heidloff As part of the XPages Development Contest
sponsored by IBM business partner We4IT,
Weihang Chen has contributed a new project - Generic
Tree navigator based on ITreeNode.
Note that you need FP1
to run it. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Two more Weeks left to submit your XPages Code to win $4800
Fri, May 18th 2012 12:41a Niklas Heidloff The OpenNTF
XPages development contest sponsored
by the IBM business partner We4IT
is still going on.
Contribute your open source project
between now and June 3th and have a chance to win $800 for controls and
$1600 for full applications.
So far we've received 16
submissions. While there are already
quite a lot of controls, there are relative few applications. Applications
contain all functionality end users need to fulfill certain tasks. Applications
can/should provide [read] Keywords: connections
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On OpenNTF: New Controls - Personal Favorites and anonymous Ratings
Wed, May 16th 2012 12:46a Niklas Heidloff Serdar Basegmez has developed a new
version of his project xInvolve
Custom Control. The new version
contains several new functionality, most importantly personal favorites
and anonymous ratings. You can try these functions in the XSnippets
application.
Watch the mini
video to see the controls in action. [read] Keywords: application
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Improvements to XSnippets: Search and Favorites
Mon, May 14th 2012 12:26a Serdar Basegmez After a long time (3 months I guess)
a new set of features has been implemented on OpenNTF
XSnippets site.
In addition to a couple of bug fixes, we have implemented an extended search
functionality, OpenSearch support and 'My Favorites' feature...
Search Improvements
We have added some usability enhancement to search. See the video.
First of all, if you click a letter or number key on the XSnippets site,
search bar will be automatically activated now. This is probably [read] Keywords: bug
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Some important changes to Project Releases
Tue, May 8th 2012 10:12p Peter Tanner Until recently, the “In Catalog” field
in the Project and Release pages normally displayed “No”. This has now
been fixed – at least for the individual project releases. So now you
can tell, on a release by release basis, if it has gone through the IP
verification process, and has had its documentation and functionality checked.
The "In Catalog" field for
projects is still bogus - and will eventually be removed - as the verification
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New OpenNTF Project: Export to XLS, RTF, PDF and HTML
Tue, May 8th 2012 1:44a Niklas Heidloff As part of the XPages Development Contest
sponsored by IBM business partner We4IT,
Stephan Schramm and Christian Annawald have contributed a new project ITWU
Exporter on XPages. The project
comes with a set of APIs to export data from Notes databases to XLS, RTF,
PDF and HTML. These APIs are Java APIs that can be invoked from SSJS in
XPages.
The project uses various other open
source projects for the core export functionality:
Watch the mini
video to see the exporter in [read] Keywords: ibm
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New OpenNTF Project: XPage Standby Dialog Custom Control
Mon, May 7th 2012 1:07a Niklas Heidloff As part of the XPages Development Contest
sponsored by We4IT,
Fredrik Norling has contributed an XPage Standby
Dialog Custom Control. The control
brings up a busy indicator when partial refreshs are done from an XPage.
It's the same code as previously submitted
as XSnippet but the new project allows now importing the control via the
new Designer
import tool.
Here is a mini
video and a screenshot: [read] Keywords: xpages development
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