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The IBM Composite Applications wiki showcases resources that will help you create and deploy composite applications, using Lotus Domino Designer, Lotus Expeditor, Eclipse, or WebSphere Portal. This includes basic concepts, the best ways to use the tools, instructions for common development and deployment scenarios, samples, techniques, and troubleshooting information.


Check out "What's new in Lotus Notes 8.5.1 & Expeditor 6.2.1" for an index of the latest tutorials and articles for the Notes 8.5.1 and Expeditor 6.2.1 release. You may also be interested in 8.5.1 resources for composite application developers and administrators.


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Are you ready to deploy composite applications? You can find IBM tested scenarios and step-by-step information in the Deploying section. Or, add your own deployment scenarios to share with others.

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wiki Help

Amanda J Bauman | March 9, 2010 4:26:35 PM | Tags:

Wiki Help describes basic tasks that you can accomplish in the wiki, such as creating and editing articles, basic editing tasks, subscribing to feeds, and providing feedback on the wiki. It also includes reference information on how to use the supported wiki markup for formatting.

How to start with different composite app pages depending on the Notes client version

Julian Buss | December 22, 2009 3:10:31 AM | Tags:

When developing for different client versions, you have the problem that newer clients have more features than the older ones. For example, Notes 8.5.1 can use XPages or the Notes Document Container in a composite app, Notes 8.0.2 cannot.   If you're in an environment with different client ...

Creating dynamic Launcher menu items for composite applications

Gill Woodcock | December 7, 2009 10:20:41 AM | Tags:

The new Composite Application Editor in version 6.2.x of Lotus Expeditor facilitates the creation of composite applications which are stored locally as .CA files. A composite application can be configured so that it is added to the Launcher ('Open') menu of the Expeditor client, by setting the ...

Introduction to the HOD container in composite applications

==Introduction== The Host On-Demand (HOD) container provides access to host applications from within a composite application. A host application is a series of screens and landmark expressions are used to identify these screens. The container provides the means to publish and receive information ...

Creating state in a custom action

Yun Zhi Lin, Bob Balfe | December 2, 2009 3:02:23 PM | Tags:

==Introduction== This tutorial walks you through the steps of creating state in a custom action. The action in this tutorial is created for the browser container and can be used to save state for each container instance. The "state" is the history of the property values which are wired to each ...

Adding a Toolbar to your Container

Dharmesh Bhakta | November 11, 2009 9:12:37 AM | Tags:

==Introduction== In this tutorial, we will describe the method for adding a toolbar to configure the landmarks of your containers. This toolbar will primarily be used to add actions to the current landmark. To add the toolbar, we will be extending the LandmarkToolBar class which provides several ...

Sample Composite Application using XPages in Lotus Notes 8.5.1

Niklas Heidloff | October 27, 2009 3:50:01 AM | Tags:

The next generation of the discussion template is developed as open source on OpenNTF. This article describes which technologies (composite applications, XPages, Eclipse, classic app dev, Java views) are used and why. You can download this sample from here: Download from here. See here for a demo. ...

Composite Application Assembly Overview

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8.5.1 resources for composite application developers and administrators

This resource page provides a number of resources, including tutorials, demonstrations, product documentation, and deployment scenarios, to help composite application developers get started with composite applications. Are there links that we should be adding to this page? Please edit this page to ...

Tech Note: When opened in a new window, multiple page composite applications that use the default navigator have display issues

Gregory W Roberts | September 30, 2009 10:17:39 AM | Tags:

Version: Lotus Expeditor 6.2.1 & Lotus Notes 8.5.1 Platform: ALL Fixed in version: Problem abstract: Display issues for mult-page composite application opened in a new window that include the default navigator Details: When a multi-page composite application is created and used the default ...