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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

Exploring the Web Service Using a Browser


A Domino‑based web‑service interface can be viewed using URLs that have the following format: http://servername/database.nsf/webservicename?openwebservice

For this example, you can browse the web‑service interface and see the method created earlier in the example. This Domino‑generated page enumerates the public methods exposed by the web service and provides a link to browse the WSDL document that defines the web service's interface.

The URLs of WSDL documents for Domino-based web services have the following format: http://hostname/database.nsf/webservice?wsdl

This URL is used by web‑service clients to identify the web service. Development tools typically use this URL to auto-generate a basic web‑service client that can then be further customized. The following code identifies the contents of this link. It describes the interface for the basic web service we just developed. There is an entry for the GetCompanyName operation with its strSymbol...