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IBM Lotus Domino: Classic Web Application Development Techniques

By : Richard G Ellis
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IBM Lotus Domino: Classic Web Application Development Techniques

By: Richard G Ellis

Overview of this book

Domino is an application server that can be used as a standalone web server. As part of the Domino suite, it provides a powerful collaborative platform for the development of customized business applications. It provides enterprise-grade e-mail, messaging, and scheduling capabilities. There are many novice and moderately experienced developers who would like to enhance a Web-enabled Domino application, but to do so they need to learn the fundamentals of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and also how to use those technologies in the context of a Domino application. Information about how to do this is available on the Web, but the sheer volume of that information makes it very difficult for the newbie to get started. Topics and techniques presented in this book provide a comprehensive overview of all major design strategies used to Web-enable traditional Domino applications. Illustrations provide clear working examples of how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can be incorporated into existing applications to improve both look and performance. Early chapters provide suggestions for working with users and for managing your development time and effort. Later chapters focus in detail on forms and pages, views, navigation, agents, security, performance, and troubleshooting. Examples demonstrate clearly how to incorporate HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into Domino designs. By the end of this book you will have learned what you need to know to quickly and competently tackle web application enhancement tasks. Beyond providing a good understanding, this book will continue to serve as a valuable source of ideas and techniques. This book brings together essential classic strategies and techniques used to deploy Domino applications to the Web. Chapters cover all major design elements, with a special emphasis on how to craft these elements to work well with web browsers. Many topics include alternative techniques for solving particular problems. Illustrations and examples can be used where appropriate, or they can serve as jumping off points for your own solutions.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
IBM Lotus Domino: Classic Web Application Development Techniques
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
10
Testing and Debugging

About the Reviewers

Karen Hobert is an IT market research analyst and strategy consultant with deep practical and market expertise in collaboration, communications, content management, and social software technologies. Karen has over twenty years of communication, collaboration, and social software platform expertise that she uses to help organizations design and deploy shared information systems. She has an extensive working knowledge of communication, collaboration, and social technologies including technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Google, and other best-of-breed vendors. Additional areas of expertise include collaborative application design and web development platforms. Karen is a contributor on numerous technical articles and is the author of courses and workshops on programming and deploying web-based business process applications.

Karen is a technical reviewer for the IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 User Guide published by Packt.

Mark Vincenzes is a software engineer at IBM, where he works on web application servers. Over the past 30 years, Mark has contributed to projects such as custom I/O and networking subsystems, database management systems, object request brokers, and source control systems. Mark's past employers include Burroughs, Xerox, Apollo, and Hewlett-Packard.