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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

Implementing a Simple Web Service


To begin this example, we will construct a web service with a single operation. It will receive a ticker symbol and perform a view lookup to locate a matching company name. The following code implements this functionality:

Dim session As NotesSession
Class CompanyInfo
Sub NEW
Set session = New NotesSession
End Sub
Function GetCompanyName(strSymbol As String) As String
Dim dbCurrent As NotesDatabase
Dim viewCompanyProfileLookup As NotesView
Dim docCompanyProfile As NotesDocument
Set dbCurrent = session.CurrentDatabase
Set viewCompanyProfileLookup =
dbCurrent.GetView("CompanyProfileLookup")
Set docCompanyProfile =
viewCompanyProfileLookup.GetDocumentByKey(strSymbol)
If (docCompanyProfile Is Nothing) Then
‘ *** no match found
GetCompanyName = "No match found for " & strSymbol
Else
GetCompanyName =
docCompanyProfile.GetItemValue("Company")(0)
End If
End Function
End Class

After saving the web service, Domino Designer 7 populates the Advance tab of the web...