MWLUG 2011: The Never Ending Integration Story

Agenda• Introductions• “Getting Started” with Integration• Advanced Integration – From the Notes Client – From other applications – From the Web• Looking Forward• Q&A

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Our OurPeople Clients Our Solutions PSC Ecosystem

People Clients DirectionProspects Delivery

• Integration • Mobile Enablement• Workflow • Custom Applications• Rules Engines • Dashboards• Collaboration • Process Improvement• SOA • Agile/Sustainable• Portals/Websites Architectures Our Partners

The Never Ending Story• Building on top of past 10 years of presentations on this topic – More Content – Every demo updated – Brand New Demos – Take Advantage of the modern software versions • Notes 8.5.2 and 8.5.3 • Office 2010 • Symphony 1.3 & 3.0 • .NET 4.0 • Visual Studio 2010• Much of the basics of integration have had to be left out …• But you can access our presentations from previous years …

The Demo DatabasesPresentation example database  Contains all of the “Getting Started” Demos  Works in your Notes Client  Configurable for your environment  New UI for Rich Client, works in Standard client as wellOpenNTF.org Contacts Experience  Customized Notes 8.5.2 Contacts Template  Version on server for web and web services demos

Poll Results: PSC Sessions in 2010

Poll Results: WorldWide 2011

Lets Review how we got to 2011

Integration History 1994  2005  DDE with Ami Pro  Notes Domino 7 with Web services 1996  2007  Notes R4  2007 Office System  OLE  Lotus Notes/Domino 8  LotusScript  Lotus Symphony  VBA  2008 1997  Visual Studio 2008  SmartSuite with LotusScript (Word Pro)  Notes/Domino 8.5 1998  2009  Notes R5 with COM support  Notes 8.5.1 2001  Domino Designer in Eclipse  Notes Domino 6  2010 2004  Office 2010  Notes Domino 6.5 with LS2J and DXL  Symphony 3.0 Otherwise known – How to Make John Feel Really Old!!!!

The Good News We have entered the “Industrial Revolution” period of the Integration Era In the “Medieval Times” DDE with Ami Pro NotesSQL was used to get even the most basic of data OLE embedding Notes F/X

The Good News (continued) The Renaissance brought us new tools OLE automation COM automation And much more The Revolution brings us major changes A true competitor to Office in Lotus Symphony Visual Studio.NET 2010 and VSTO 4.0 Code begins to move from inside a document to complete applications

“Getting Started” Demos• Each demo is the equivalent of a “Hello World” sample• They are self contained and as little code as possible – No error trapping, etc• This will get you started with Integration

Getting Started• Word ● Symphony Documents (UNO)• Excel ● Symphony Spreadsheets (UNO)• PPT ● Symphony Presentations (UNO)• Project ● Symphony Documents (LS API)• Visio ● Symphony Spreadsheets (LS API)• VBA ● Symphony Presentations (LS API) ● C#

Use the Microsoft Constants Database• Provides a listing of all Microsoft• Office variables and their converted constants• Extraction of constants by John Collidge• Database built by Tom Duff• Now an OpenNTF.org project• Supports Microsoft Office 2000, XP, 2003, and 2007 http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/project.xsp?action=openDocument&docume ntId=1F6C5C7B16317E218625726D004A31A9

Advanced integration from the Notes ClientFrom your Contacts application:• Create Letter• Create Envelope• Mass Mail Merge• Export• Create Presentation• Labels• Templates• Custom Fields This requires that you replace the design of your Contacts application with the OpenNTF.org Contacts Experience template

OpenNTF.org Contacts Experience• Free template on OpenNTF.org• Release 2.0• Works with 8.0 and above – Microsoft Office• Works with 8.5.1 and above – Lotus Symphony http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/project.xsp?action=openDocument&name=Open NTF.org%20Contacts%20Experience

Advanced Integration from other applications• Insert Image• Insert Slide• Notes Explorer• Document Automation vs. Generation – OOXML – ODF

Advanced Integration from other Applications Notes Explorer• A C# and .NET solution that extends Microsoft Explorer to allow navigation of Domino applications from within Explorer. Notes Explorer is the combination of the Lotus Connectors and DNFS (Domino Network Files Services) from the Notes 5.x time frame.

Advanced Integration from other Applications Notes Explorer• Using a custom VSTO solution, add an Insert Image Ribbon, menu item, and sidebar that allows for easy image insertion from a Notes repository.

Automation vs. Generation• Document Generation is starting to become a viable option – Using the standard formats of OOXML, ODF, and PDF• Instead of requiring the application to be present, this is done with no interaction of any application• Tools – C# and the OOXML Toolkit for Office – Java and the Simple Java API for ODF for Symphony – Numerous PDF APIs and Toolkits for both .NET and Java• Can generate server side in a fraction of the time

OOXML• Default format of Office 2007 and Office • ZIP container of text, images, etc. 2010 • Open XML SDK 1.0 – Ok, ok … there are three versions – Allows for handling container 1) Office 2007 OOXML 2) ECMA-376 • Open XML SDK 2.0 3) ISO/IEC 29500:2008 4) Office 2010 OOXML• Allows XML exploration of files for – Word – Excel – PowerPoint – Allows for document manipulation

ODF• Open Document Format• Used by OpenOffice.org and Lotus Symphony• Open Document 1.0 – ISO/IEC 26300:200• Open Document 1.1• Open Document 1.2• We are using the Simple Java API for ODF created by IBM• http://odftoolkit.org/projects/simpl e/pages/Home

Document Generation Demo• A custom developed C# application that uses the Open XML SDK 2.0 and the Simple Java API for ODF created by IBM. We are also using an opensource PDF toolkit.

Advanced Integration from the web• Integration with Microsoft Web Technologies – Integration with IBM Lotus XPages

Advanced Integration from the Web IBM Lotus XPages• A demo of an IBM Lotus XPages application using the IBM ODF Toolkit to generate documents

2011 and Beyond We finally have great tools  VS.NET 2010 and DDE Great Changes Coming • Productivity Tools are moving to the web ▬ Google Docs ▬ Lotus Symphony On-line and LotusLive ▬ Microsoft Office On-line and Microsoft 365 • End User Device Shift ▬ How many of you have tablets today? Next year? We have multiple options  Office, Symphony, OpenOffice.org, Google Docs, iWork, etc. Competition will be good for us … if we can deal with all the changes

PSCs Effort to Shape the Integration Market in 2011• Our goal in 2011 is – Provide 24/7 education about the integration market – Education and extend in the Automation space – Bring new developers to the Document Generation Space – Continue a leader in ODF and OOXML usage in the Lotus community• To achieve these goals … We introduce integrationdestination.com• Launching mid Sept 2011• We will start with recording videos with every automation demo we have done … ever (52) – Every version of Office still supported – All of the extra stuff• Far more to come!

Resources LDD Discussions (Notes.Net) http://www-130.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org OpenOffice Developers Guide http://api.openoffice.org/DevelopersGuide/DevelopersGuide.html Programming OpenOffice with Visual Basic http://www.kalitech.fr/clients/doc/VB_APIOOo_en.html Microsoft Office developer’s Web site  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/default.aspx Microsoft Developer Network  http://msdn.microsoft.com

Resources (cont.) Microsoft Office blog listing http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905342.aspx OpenNTF.org — the open source Web site for Notes www.openntf.org Integra4Notes Web site www.integra4notes.com Slides and content available from http://www.johndavidhead.com http://www.psclistens.com

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