Lotus Connections iWidget Development Guide
IBM® Lotus® Connections 2.5 provides the ability for third-party
developers to integrate iWidgets into the Lotus Connections user interface
for use in the Communities, Home page, and Profiles features.
An iWidget is a Web application that allows you to add
content to the Lotus Connections user interface. In Lotus Connections 2.5,
many areas of the user interface are constructed using iWidgets. Developers
and administrators can extend the Lotus Connections user interface with
new capabilities and also replace existing capabilities that are shipped
with the product by developing their own iWidgets using the iWidget specification
and integrating them with Lotus Connections.
This guide will help developers to learn how to create
iWidgets for Lotus Connections. iWidgets are independent of the back-end
server technology that the iWidget is hosted on.
The guide contains the following sections:
1. iWidget
Overview
2. Common
iWidget support in Lotus Connections
3. iWidget
support in the Home page
4. iWidget support in Profiles
and Communities
5. Best practices for iWidget
development
This guide assumes that you have some basic knowledge of
JavaScript, Ajax, and REST.
Note: This guide will be updated as needed. If you have
any suggestions, add a comment to this page. The authors will evaluate
your suggestion and address it as soon as possible.
Authors: Vincent Burckhardt and Ronny Pena