The document presents an exploration of XPages within the context of Dante's nine circles of Inferno, likening the complexities of web application development to Dante's journey through hell. It discusses various aspects of XPages, including server-side JavaScript, design principles, persistence options, and user interface considerations, emphasizing best practices and the importance of user experience. The document concludes by encouraging developers to learn from past experiences and be prepared for future advancements in web technology.

1. BP204 It’s Not Infernal:
Dante’s Nine Circles of
XPages Heaven
Paul Withers, Intec Systems Ltd
Mike McGarel, Czarnowski Display Services Inc.
© 2014 IBM Corporation

2. Paul Withers
 ICS Consultant at Intec Systems Ltd
 IBM Champion 2011-2014
 Co-Author XPages Extension Library
 OpenNTF Director
 Contributor to OpenNTF
 Blogger on XPages, IBM Domino®
Designer and beyond
– http://www.intec.co.uk/blog

3. Mike McGarel
 Working with Web technologies for over 14 years
 Working with IBM Notes® & IBM Domino® since version 4.6
 Corporate developer
 Site developer for MWLUG
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4. Dante’s Inferno
 Author: Dante Alighieri, 14th Century
 Part of Divine Comedy with Purgatorio and Paradiso
 Journey by Dante over Easter Weekend 1300
 Dante rescued and guided by the Roman poet Virgil
 “Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate”
(“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here”)
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5. The Circles
 First Circle: Limbo
 Second Circle: Lust
 Third Circle: Gluttony
 Fourth Circle: Greed
 Fifth Circle: Wrath
 Sixth Circle: Heresy
 Seventh Circle: Violence
 Eighth Circle: Fraud
 Ninth Circle: Treachery
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6. First Circle: Limbo
Mihai Marius Mihu, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mihaimariusmihu/
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7. Hybrid “Limbo” Applications
 Add XPages into traditional Domino web applications
 Use existing Domino databases as data source and new
XPages database for user interface
 Add mobile interface
 Add XPages for sidebar
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8. SSJS – The “Limbo” Language
 Server-side JavaScript leverages pre-existing knowledge
– JavaScript syntax
• NotesDocument.getUniversalID()
• @DbLookup(@DbName(),“myViewName”,2,
“[FAILSILENT]”)
– Domino objects use LotusScript names
– Many Formula Language @Functions supported
• Kathy Brown has blogged which ones are not
• http://www.runningnotes.net/index.php/2010/03/25/listof-formula-not-supported-in-xpages/
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9. “Limbo” Property Values
 Custom Language
<xp:text
value= “Database title is #{database.title}, database path
is #{javascript: @Subset(@DbName(), -1);}”>
</xp:text>
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10. Demo
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11. Converting LS to SSJS
 Replace “Dim” with “var”
 Replace “ As ” with “:”
 Add “;”
 Remember methods etc are case sensitive and need ()
 GetAllDocumentsByKey – need to pass key as Vector
 Full syntax required for interacting with Notes Items
 RECYCLE!
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12. Second Circle: Lust
Mihai Marius Mihu, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mihaimariusmihu/
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13. It’s All About Wants
 Users want:
– a familiar “look and feel”
– something easy to use
– to get in and out
 You want them to want your app
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14. Looks Matter
 First impressions are key
 Better looking “equals” works better
 Steve McDonagh’s great series on design principles:
http://dominoyesmaybe.blogspot.com/2012/09/principals-ofdesign-1-balance.html
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15. Interface Makeovers
 IBM’s OneUI (v3):
http://infolib.lotus.com/resources/oneui/3.0/docPublic/index.htm
 Extension Library / Dojo widgets http://dojotoolkit.org
– XPages Help Application http://xhelp.openntf.org/
 Twitter Bootstrap: http://getbootstrap.com
 jQuery Plugins
– jQuery UI: http://jqueryui.com
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17. Demo
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18. Third Circle: Gluttony
Mihai Marius Mihu, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mihaimariusmihu/
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19. Don’t Make Browsers Eat Too Much!
 xsp.resource.aggregate=true
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20. Temporary Gluttony – For Debugging!
 xsp.client.resources.uncompressed=true
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21. Fourth Circle: Greed
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Mihai Marius Mihu, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mihaimariusmihu/

22. Avoid Greed on Server
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23. Demo
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24. Persistence Options
 Keep Pages in Memory
– Remembering, remembering, remembering…
– xsp.persistence.mode=basic
– Best for…quick retrieval, few users
 Keep Pages on Disk
– Writing…next? You want it again? Reading…
– xsp.persistence.mode=file
– Best for…lots of users, but slower retrieval
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25. Persistence Options
 Keep Only The Current Page in Memory
– Remembering, remembering, remembering…
– Oh, new page? Writing….and now…
– Remembering, remembering, remembering…
– xsp.persistence.mode=fileex
– Best for…lots of users, quick retrieval of current page
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26. Persistence Options
 GZip Persisted Files
– xsp.persistence.file.gzip
– Default=false
– Writing…next? You want it again? Reading…
 Persist Files Asynchronously
– xsp.persistence.file.async
– Default=true
– Server busy, remembering. Next? (Writing, writing)
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27. Persistence Options
 Maximum Pages
– xsp.persistence.tree.maxviews
• Default=4
• Remembering, remembering, remembering
• Only applies when xsp.persistence.mode=basic
– xsp.persistence.file.maxviews
• Default=10
• Writing, retrieving, writing, writing, discarding…
• Default folder defined by xsp.persistence.dir.xspstate
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28. Page Persistence Mode
 xsp.persistence.viewstate=fulltree
– Default option, whole component tree persisted
 xsp.persistence.viewstate=nostate
– No component tree stored, similar to
xsp.session.transient=true
 xsp.persistence.viewstate=delta
– Valid if pages stored in memory
– Only stores changes since page loaded
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29. Page Persistence Mode
 xsp.persistence.viewstate=deltaex
– Valid if multiple pages stored in memory
– Stores full component tree for current page, deltas for
others
 Viewstate property on XPage allows developer to define at
page level
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30. xsp.session.transient
 xsp.session.transient=“false” sets XPage stateless
– Default VALUES overridden between requests
– Default STATES not overridden
 NOT “Go to next page from current”
– INSTEAD “Go to next page from default”
 NOT “Toggle show detail from previous state”
– INSTEAD “Toggle show detail from default”
 Great for large, read only pages, Websites – no storage
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31. Fifth Circle: Wrath
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Mihai Marius Mihu, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mihaimariusmihu/

32. More Responsiveness = Less Anger
 Partial page refreshes
 Client-side processing
– Dojo JavaScript framework (included with XPages)
– jQuery JavaScript framework (easily added)
– Other JavaScript frameworks or custom scripts
 Server-side processing
– XAgent (XPage of just code with UI redirect)
– Java (design element or WebContentWEB-INFsrc)
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33. Meet the Users’ Expectations
 It’s a “mad mad mad mad world”
– Devices
– Locations
– Connectivity
 Responsive design options:
– Dojo layout container
– Bootstrap responsive
 Embedded experience
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34. Demo
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35. Sixth Circle: Heresy
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Mihai Marius Mihu, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mihaimariusmihu/

36. Java
 “IBM always wanted us to use Java” – NO!
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37. Why?
 #{javascript:…} means parse this string using SSJS rules
 Pass commands to VariableResolver
 Look for corresponding variable name
 Map to a Java object/method
 So why not go straight to the source?
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38. Demo
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39. OpenNTF Domino API
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40. OpenNTF Domino API
 Document.replaceItemValue(“myDateField”, new Date());
– Or Document.put(“myDateField”, new Date());
 for (Document doc : dc) {…}
 Transactional Processing
 SyncHelper
 Email Helpers
 OpenLog
 Document Scanner
 Database Listeners
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41. Seventh Circle: Violence
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Mihai Marius Mihu, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mihaimariusmihu/

42. Themes
 Themes can force controls to behave consistently
 But some elements cannot be manipulated easily
–EventHandlers don’t have a default stylekit
–They can have a themeId applied though
 Themes loaded at end of page rendering
–getStyleKitFamily() to find default theme id
–Or use Mark Leusink’s debug toolbar
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43. “Strong-Arming” All Events
 Dojo Standby Control on OpenNTF
– Hijacks partial refreshes
– Adds standby message during long-running partial
refreshes
– http://openntf.org/XSnippets.nsf/snippet.xsp?id=standbydialog-custom-control
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44. Eighth Circle: Fraud
Mihai Marius Mihu, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mihaimariusmihu/
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45. SessionScope
 SessionScope is fraudulent
– Session only for current application
– Browser session, not user session
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46. HTTPOnly Cookies
 Since Domino 9.0 SessionID and DomAuthSessId are now
HTTPOnly
 Cannot be modified or removed via JavaScript
–http://openntf.org/XSnippets.nsf/snippet.xsp?id=clearsession-whole-server does not work
 Cannot be intercepted
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47. How To Add Your Own HTTPOnly Cookie
 Serdar Basegmez XSnippet
 http://openntf.org/XSnippets.nsf/snippet.xsp?id=extendedcookie-implementation-for-httponly-cookies
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48. Ninth Circle: Treachery
Mihai Marius Mihu, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mihaimariusmihu/
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49. Beyond Domino Designer
 Generate Javadocs
 Eclipse Modeling Tools to create UML designs
– Use latest Eclipse for RCP and RAP Developers
– Download from Eclipse Marketplace
 Atlassian SourceTree and Perforce P4Merge
 SHOW 103 Wednesday 8am
 http://www.slideshare.net/paulswithers1/beyond-dominodesigner
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50. We climbed, he first, I following his steps,
Till on our view the beautiful lights of heaven
Dawned through a circular opening in the cave:
Thence issuing we again beheld the stars
Dante, Inferno, Canto 34 130-133
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51. Summary
 XPages is a gateway to other worlds
 It is a journey – small steps lead to great strides
 Learn from what others have done
 Be prepared for the “Great Beyond”
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52. Other Sessions
 SHOW103: Source Control 101: Implementing an End-to-End Solution
 SHOW104: Practical Java
 AD201: Domino Application Development: Today and Tomorrow
 AD202: Get The Best Out of Bootstrap4XPages
 AD207: Widgets, LiveText and Now OpenSocial
 AD209: Making Your Team More Productive with IBM Domino Designer JMP101: Java for
XPages Development
 JMP106: Make Your Business Open and Social using IBM Notes Social Edition 9.0.1
 BP207: Don’t Reinvent The Wheel – Re(use) Open Source Software from OpenNTF
 GURU101: Gurupalooza
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53. IBM Resources
 XPages.Info: http://xpages.info
 XPages Forum: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/xpagesforum.nsf
 Notes/Domino Application Development Wiki: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf
 Collaboration Today: http://collaborationtoday.info
 OpenNTF: http://openntf.org
 OpenNTF Snippets: http://openntf.org/XSnippets.nsf/home.xsp
 The “XPages trilogy”:
– Mastering XPages, 2nd Edition due shortly (IBM Press)
– XPages Extension Library (IBM Press)
– XPages Portable Command Guide (IBM Press)
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54. Community Resources
 Planet Lotus: http://planetlotus.org
 Notes in 9 (videos): http://www.notesin9.com
 XPages cheat sheets: http://www.xpagescheatsheets.com
 YouAtNotes XPages wiki: http://www.xpageswiki.com
 Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/xpages
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55.  Access Connect Online to complete your session surveys using any:
– Web or mobile browser
– Connect Online kiosk onsite
Paul Withers
Intec Systems Ltd
pwithers@intec.co.uk
http://www.intec.co.uk/blog
@PaulSWithers
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Mike McGarel
Czarnowski Display Services Inc.
mcgarelgramming@gmail.com
http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/McGarelGramming/
@mmcgarel

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