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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

DB2 Design Integration


In Notes/Domino 7, you have the ability to use a DB2 back-end to provide robust query capabilities across multiple Notes databases. There is some work required to set this up:

  • DB2 must be installed. This does not come with Domino; it is a separate install.

  • There is some Domino configuration required, mostly to set up as an authorized DB2 user account.

The Notes database(s) that you want to integrate with DB2 must be created as DB2-enabled. If you have an existing database that you want to convert, you can make a copy or replica copy and mark it as a DB2 database. (It is not possible to convert existing databases simply through your new server configuration, or through a server-console command.) In your Notes database, you can then create a DB2 Access View (DAV), which sets up the appropriate tables in the DB2 storage. Note that you may have to clean your data to avoid data-type conflicts. Also note that these will add to the size of your storage needs, but will not...