This Week in Lotus

19: XPages Xcellerated! (IBM presents a gift to Lotus developers via OpenNTF)


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Episode 19, recorded Friday 24th September 2010, discussing the XPages Extension Library, OpenNTF.org and more…
Hosts
Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company)  & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)
Guests
Niklas Heidloff (blog | twitter) is a developer in the IBM Lotus Domino team and leads IBM’s engagement in OpenNTF.
Phiippe Riand (linkedin) is in charge of new technologies within the Lotus Domino offering. He’s the architect for XPages, a brand new Java based technology provided in the Domino server. It helps reinvigorate Domino Web apps by providing a real Web 2.0 development environment, using the latest technologies.
Tony McGuckin (linkedin)  is a software engineer for IBM, based in Dublin, Ireland. He is one of the authors of the forthcoming “Mastering XPages” book.
Paul Withers (blog | twitter | company) leads the Domino Development Team at Intec Systems Ltd, an IBM Business Partner in UK, and fledgling contributor to OpenNTF.
Topics
Addition of the XPages Extension Library to OpenNTF (XPagesBlog, SlideShare, OpenNTF Blog

* What is it?
* Who wrote it? Why?
* Why has it been added to OpenNTF rather than to the product?
* What version of Notes/Domino is required?
* Is it for developing for the Web, the client or both?
* Is there any training available? Videos – modal dialog, value picker – 9 videos planned. 70 page document (work in progress)
* Is IBM offering any support for the library?
* Can developers extend/edit the library?
* (From Matt White) How can we include the Extension Library into our templates so that we can distribute NTFs without requiring server change?
* What if users want new features?
* What does this mean for XPages as a development environment?
* What is planned for the future?

Other XPages news 

* BLUG session with Nathan Freeman (Tuesday, October 26th, BLUG is having their next evening meeting in Brussels. Nathan T. Freeman is coming to demonstrate the cool FREE Extensions to XPages they are developing together with IBM. Register via the BLUG website)
* Mastering xPages book by Martin Donnelly, Mark Wallace and Tony McGuckin
* Announcement on twitter by LotusEducation of Developing IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.2 Applications: Intermediate XPage Design  courses.
* Lotus Developer Summit announced by Bilal Jaffery and
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This Week in LotusBy Stuart McIntyre & Darren Duke