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Domino 7 Application Development

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Domino 7 Application Development

Overview of this book

Written by Lotus insiders, the book provides a practical guide to developing applications making use of the important features and enhancements introduced in Notes/Domino 7. These experienced experts use their own experiences to map out the benefits you could gain, and the dangers you may face, as you develop Domino applications in your business. Written by specific experts, edited and overseen by Lotus content generator Dick McCarrick, this book is the definitive guide to developing Domino 7 applications. TECHNOLOGY Domino is an application server that can be used as a standalone web server or as the server component of IBM's Lotus Domino product which provides a powerful collaborative platform for development of customized business applications. It also provides enterprise-grade email, messaging, and scheduling capabilities.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Domino 7 Application Development
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
Free Chapter
1
A Short History of Notes and Domino

New Domino Designer Client Features


Some of the important and valuable new/upgraded features for the Domino Designer 7 include the following:

  • AutoSave (mentioned above, and described in more detail later in this chapter).

  • Agent Profiler allows a developer to see how long every call in their agent is taking, and how many times each of those calls occurs. This is an invaluable tool for performance monitoring and troubleshooting, and we'll look at it in more detail in Chapter 11, Troubleshooting Applications.

  • Domino Domain Monitoring (DDM) is perhaps the single most important feature in Notes/Domino 7. It provides an extensive list of troubleshooting and performance monitoring tools, a subset of which is relevant for application developers. We will examine this in more detail in Chapter 11.

  • Significant improvements to referencing profile documents in views have been made. In addition to changing the color scheme for a view, you can now develop applications that are much more user-defined...