Lotus Domino and DOJO, where will it end?

My company is just in the deliverance phase of a quite complicated project involving changes in the DWA part of the mail templates to increase the 40K+ web users experience when using the PIM applications.

This has forced me to dig into the forms7.nsf database heavily and that for sure must be one of the deepest investigation processes I’ve been into to. Because of the HAKI thing, where all functions and variables are ‘compressed’ into small two, three or for letters acronyms sequential character combinations I could only map up those parts I was in really need of.

If the newly announced cooperation between IBM and DOJO (IBM PR) will improve the DWA both for users and developers no one would be happier than me. But the fact that IBM is working close with DOJO in this case does not necessarily mean that the Lotus Domino community will gain anything at all from it, it might just show up only in the webshere track.

I wrote an article on developerWorks regarding how Ajax can be used on a Lotus Domino platform that was published very close to the IBM/DOJO announcement last week. Per Henrik Lausten made a comment, which I replied to some days ago. {link}. He suggested more examples and information on how the DOJO can be used in conjunction with the domino server.

I’ve been thinking of this for some days now. I just can’t see where such a post should start. The article wasn’t so much on the Ajax parts as on the domino side. Writing a text on DOJO used as platform for a domino driven application would be more about the DOJO and not much about the domino side. One idea could be on how to replicate some of the goodies found in the notes client (ie. Form refreshes on keyword changes etc) on to the web.

Or if anyone has any other ideas?

Update: I’ve done some research on this topic now and I think this IBM+DOJO thing will not drip on the Lotus Domino plattform for a while. What’s going on (I think) is that IBM is helping out with the AJAX Toolkit Framework. This framework is aiming the eclipse platform and I will post about that in another post.

June 14th, 2006 in Uncategorized | tags: , , , , , ,
  • http://dominounlimited.blogspot.com/ Andrei Kouvchinnikov

    An article on DeveloperWorks about customizing DWA: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/dwa-data/
    I don’t really understand why DWA/Quickplace use so mycket Javascript.
    The attachment control is pretty good though, too bad IBM does not want to implement it as a standard function in Domino.

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