Karsten Lehmann 29 June 2011 09:10:37
It’s been quite silent in this blog since the last posting in March, but we had a good reason to concentrate on our work:
Today we are releasing the first public beta version of a new XPages development toolkit to the public!
It’s called XPages2Eclipse, a language extension for XPages development in the Lotus Notes Client 8.5.2 and higher.
With XPages2Eclipse, XPages applications become first class citizens in the Lotus Notes Client.
The toolkit contains a variety of APIs that developers can leverage to connect their XPages applications to the Eclipse-based Notes Client UI, classic Lotus Notes applications and even communicate with IBM Lotus Symphony R3, all from server-side JavaScript (SSJS) code.
Here are only a few features that the toolkit has to offer:
- Embed existing Notes applications: fill in Notes forms and Emails with data from XPages applications, access documents selected in classical Notes views, run existing LotusScript code
- Import or export of data from IBM Lotus Symphony, supporting documents, spreadsheets and presentations
- Execute document attachments with associated desktop-applications (for Windows, Linux and Mac OS)
- Access the system clipboard to store HTML, text, images or files
- Execute long-running operations in the background, display their progress and let the user cancel the operation if necessary
- Convenient features like file selection, including multi-selection, and folder selection
- Launch JavaScript code on Notes Client startup, when a toolbar button is clicked and on specific UI events like focus changes in the Client
- Develop servlets using Javascript and Java with code stored in NSF
To get more information, download a beta version and find a lot of documentation with demo applications please visit the XPages2Eclipse product area on our website:
[http://xpages2eclipse.mindoo.com - for our English audience](http://xpages2eclipse.mindoo.com)
[http://xpages2eclipse.mindoo.de - for our German audience](http://xpages2eclipse.mindoo.de)