1.0 Introduction 

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With Version 8.5.3, IBM® Lotus® Domino® Designer® software further improved its reputation for being a premier collaborative application development tool for Lotus Domino software-based applications. Lotus Domino Designer helps companies improve employee productivity by building and deploying Lotus Domino applications more quickly, thereby, enabling organizations to be more responsive to changing business initiatives.

Within this document, we share thoughts and industry best practices about how efficient application development in Lotus Domino can look like. The document discusses certain powerful application development features of Domino XPages development technologies by showing how a developer can apply best practices to efficiently create or extending the functionality of for an existing Domino application. Ideas and concepts presented are meant to be an introduction and do not claim to be a complete list.

This wiki covers what is needed to build or enhance an application regardless of client and the general practices to make development easier, less time consuming, and easy to support changes within the lifecycle of an application.

Finally, we offer instructions on infrastructure and operational improvements which can benefit performance and maintainability of your environment.