27 November 2008
Ext.nd vs Dojomino at Lotusphere 09
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I'm getting ready myself to head on over to spend the day with some friends but before I leave I wanted to do a quick shot out to everyone and ask for some help. Lance Spellman and I are co-presenting a session at Lotusphere titled: Battle of the IBM Lotus Domino Javascript Toolkits. In this session Lance and I will go through the steps of converting a Notes application into a Rich Internet Application. Lance will use Dojomino, a customized version of Dojo for Domino and I'll be using Ext.nd, a customized version of Ext for Domino (check out our demo to see it in action). So here's where I need your help. What would you like for us to cover? Our presentation is due next Friday with a first draft due this coming Monday so needless to say these next few days and this next week we'll be busy getting things together. So here's your chance. Let us know what you want to see and what you would like to see compared between Dojomino and Ext.nd. Speak now or forever hold your peace! :)
Happy Thanksgiving.
I would really love to see the Notes Calendar converted for the web.
Erskine
I know that booth frameworks can do amazing things. But how easy is it to integrate them into existing applications.
The scenario I have in mind is an application that is doing alright as an web app. It has already some basic JavaScript functionality. The application . So what is the approach to use one of the frameworks. Rip and replace all existing JavaScript code? What about the html layout and CSS?
I would love to see an very advanced shopping basket which is easy customizable for coming functionalty requests of a customer
I would like to see how easy it is to implement it to an application.
Hi Jack,
I'm really looking forward to this session as you might guess. To be truly useful for the stated purpose of "converting a Notes application into a Rich Internet Application", you need to take a real, if simple, Notes application and make it a fully-baked web app with both toolkits. This means all user-facing elements (views, forms, dialogs) that are used in the Notes interface need to work webside. I say "user-facing" since I don't think it's critical to webify administrative bits like configuration, etc. Nice, but secondary.
The end result doesn't have to be fancy or highly advanced. Indeed, I think the really advanced stuff should be secondary, and could be mentioned in passing and included in the sample download. My concern here is enabling your average Notes client developer with minimal web experience to succeed in taking a Notes app to the web, even if that initial effort is relatively simple. The advanced stuff can be built on that initial success.
If you're looking for a sample Notes app to use for the demo, I would of course recommend SuperNTF. There are quite a few folks using it now so I think you'd get some good uptake of your example code from those users. And of course it makes the SuperNTF framework much more useful in general.
A few additional thoughts:
- It would be nice if you could enable partial refreshes for the field setting "refresh fields on keyword change"
- type ahead is always good when entering field values
Happy to give you both a personal orientation of SuperNTF if you like. Good luck!
Kev
Whatever you do, make it flashy. ;)
Show a web desktop with multiple extnd apps open in the same page
Dear Jack,
I would like to see the Portal Sample with iframe portlets. These portlets would be load from the result of LotusScript agent.
I am starting a application with this scope.
Regards,
Jeferson Ladeia
Hi Jack
How did Ext.nd presentation go at Lotusphere? Do you have any update regarding to a new release of the Ext.nd? Is the next release going to be based on Ext 2.1 or 2.2?
You guys have done a great work with the Ext.nd.
Regards,
Sasha Oros
I would like to see as simple as possible method of conversion.
Hi Jack
I notice you have a lot of information regarding Lotus Domino in you forum. We have just released a spam filter for lotus notes : { Link }
The product is quite unique since it uses a community approach to spam filtering and there are really not that many server based spam filters for Lotus Domino. Most are Gateway spam filters which are really not integrated into Notes.
Would you be interested in posting a blog entry on your spam filter? We are very interested in feedback from Lotus Domino users, so it would be nice if you would ask your visitors for their opinions.
Best Regards / Venlig Hilsen
Christian Bjorklund
Please all in XML