Composite Application Overview  Definition and Benefits  Programming Models  End-to-End Process  Building Components  Assembling and Wiring Components  Demonstration  Hands-on  References  Related Sessions  Q & A

2. HND101
Building Composite Application for Lotus Notes 8
Katherine Sewell, Advisory Software Engineer for IBM Software Group
Stephen Auriemma, Advisory Software Engineer for IBM Software Group

3. Agenda
 Composite Application Overview
 Definition and Benefits
 Programming Models
 End-to-End Process
 Building Components
 Assembling and Wiring Components
 Demonstration
 Hands-on
 References
 Related Sessions
 Q&A

4. What are Composite Applications?
 Collection of user facing components brought together for a
specific business purpose
front end of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
 Programming model supported in Portal and Notes
surface content from multiple systems
aggregate different component types
 Support business flexibility
mix-n-match and loose coupling
user effectiveness

5. Benefits of Composite Applications
 Improve user efficiency through contextual collaboration
 tools for integration and collaboration in the context of everyday applications
 Exploit IT investments and strategy by heterogenous technologies
 Notes applications/databases
 Eclipse components (e.g. embedded browser)
 portlets and WSRP
 other component types, including desktop applications
 On demand business applications via Service Oriented Architecture
 loosely coupled components

6. Property Broker Programming Model
 Component interaction
loosely coupled through properties and actions
mix-and-match component technologies
 Property is a typed exchangeable data
 Action is the logic to consume a property
 Components define their properties and actions
 Wire connects properties to actions
causal relationship
1-to-1 or 1-to-many wiring options

7. Composite Application Editor – Assembly and Wiring
 Edit composite applications stored in NSF or on Portal*
 Notes and Eclipse components added to and displayed on palette
 Drag-n-drop components onto page for WYSIWYG display
 Edit component runtime properties
 Wiring interface displays properties and actions of included components
 Connect properties to actions in 1-to-1 or 1-to-N causal relationships
 Notes 8 rich client runtime for defined wiring is property broker

8. CAE – Layout Editor

9. CAE – Wiring Tool

10. Property Broker Editor

11. New Features in Lotus Notes 8.0.1
 Relative links to components
@Formulas to calculate links to NSF components
 LotusScript APIs and @Formulas to get CA context
 Built in actions
 Open documents on pages
 Role based access to pages
 No wiring restrictions in CAE
 Scoping of properties and actions to rectangles in CAE
 New PIM components
 Toolbox

12. Calculated Links to NSF Components
com.ibm.notes.computedNotesURL
@GetProfileField(quot;URL Profilequot;;quot;NotesURLquot;)
com.ibm.notes.processOnlyOnUpdate'
false

13. Get Composite Application Context
 NotesUIWorkspace.IsInCompositeApp
 NotesUIWorkspace.GetComponentViewPreference
 @IsInCompositeApp
 @GetComponentViewPreference

14. Related Sessions
 Hands-On Sessions
 HND103 Developing Eclipse Plug-ins to Extend IBM Lotus Notes 8.
 Best Practices
 BP103 Building Composite Applications in IBM Lotus Notes
 BP218 IBM Lotus Notes 8 and IBM Lotus Expeditor Customization for LotusScript
Developers
 Application Development Sessions
 AD103 Creating Eclipse-based Components for Composite Applications
 AD104 Developing Composite Applications to Solve Real-World Challenges
 AD105 Leveraging Third Party and Legacy Components in IBM Lotus Notes
Composite Applications
 AD106 Building Composite Applications for IBM Lotus Notes 8, IBM WebSphere
Portal and Mobile Audience
 AD107 Designing Great User Interfaces for Composite Applications
 AD201 The Amazing IBM Lotus Notes 8: Extendable with Pluginsquot;.

15. References
 Composite Applications Blog
 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/CompApps
 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/CompApps?entry=blog_sitemap
 Official Composite Applications Site
 http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/composite-apps
 Redbook: Building Composite Applications
 http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/sg247367.html

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