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OpenNTF is devoted to enabling groups of individuals all over the world to collaborate on IBM Lotus Notes/Domino applications and release them as open source.

Browse the catalogs to find the projects, components and controls you're looking for which have been made available under the Apache license or under the GPL license. Browse the project area to find the latest project updates before they have been cleared.


New Project: Intercept Requests/Responses from Domino Web Services

Niklas Heidloff | 11:56:33 PM Wednesday, September 1, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

Simon O'Doherty has contributed a new project. This project allows you on Windows to intercept the SOAP request/response from a Domino Web Service. This can be helpful in diagnosing your Web Service with live data, rather then through a SOAP debugging application.

See here for the project, here for the documentation and here, here and here for more screenshots.

New Release: Add your own Simple Actions to Domino Designer

Niklas Heidloff | 6:44:25 AM Wednesday, September 1, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

I've uploaded another simple sample showing how to use the XPages extensibility API. The sample demonstrates how to develop your own actions that show up in Domino Designer as simple actions.

You can download the project here and read the documentation here.

Follow OpenNTF Projects via improved Feeds

Niklas Heidloff | 11:59:41 PM Monday, August 30, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

The RSS feeds to follow activities in specific OpenNTF projects have been improved. This work had been requested in the IdeaJam (number four).

You can subscribe to projects by navigating to the project home page and then click the feed icon in the browser's address bar.

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New Project: Document Management for Files on local Disk

Niklas Heidloff | 12:31:12 AM Monday, August 30, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

Yun Zhi Lin, Wei Li, Yi Guo and Sun Zhenshuai have created a new project with an Eclipse based plugin to manage documents on the local disk. Here is the project and here the release.

Free OpenNTF Development Environment - Looking for Consumers

Niklas Heidloff | 7:29:09 AM Thursday, August 26, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

In July we hosted an IdeaJam on OpenNTF. Since then we've implemented the most requested idea, second most requested idea and have almost finished the number 4.

Earlier this year Daniele Vistalli had already started with the planning and implementation for number 3: Free Development Environment for Projects with more than one Contributor.

This activity was deferred though since at that time we were not aware of any concrete consumers. If you want to use a free development environment for your OpenNTF project please contact us.

New Release of Mobile Controls with easier Setup and Modal Window Control

Niklas Heidloff | 12:59:10 AM Wednesday, August 25, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

The new release contains the full Dojo 1.5 imported into the NSF. This makes the setup much simpler. Now you can copy the two NSFs simply to your data directory and run the app. There is also a new control 'ModalWindow' in it using the WINK toolkit.

Get the new release from here.

First Lotus Domino XPages 8.5.2 Extensibility Sample on OpenNTF

Niklas Heidloff | 12:19:30 AM Tuesday, August 24, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.2 comes with a new feature called XPages extensibility. See here for the XPages Extensibility API Documentation and here for a podcast (podcast) about it.

Get the sample code from here.

Browse to OpenNTF Projects via the new Tree Control

Ferry Kranenburg | 12:23:05 AM Monday, August 23, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

The Projects tab has undergone some changes to make it easier for everyone to find projects on OpenNTF. The browsing itself has been improved by using Dojo Tree elements. You can find projects categorized by name, by category, by owner and by rating.

As Niklas blogged before we've used the new activeness indicator to narrow down the count of the projects and focus on the active ones. You can still find older projects by de-selecting the 'active projects only' option.

Featured Project of the Month: XPages Mobile Controls

Bruce Elgort | 4:50:32 PM Thursday, August 19, 2010 | Full Story and Comments
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Niklas Heidloff and Steve Castledine have created a set of re-usable XPages Custom Controls that you can use to build mobile applications for IBM Lotus Domino. There are over a dozen controls that you can use to deliver a true native mobile experience for your applications.  The XPages Mobile Control project has support for both Apple's iPhone and recently RIM's Blackberry devices. The project is fully documented and contains several excellent screencasts and slideshows to illustrate the rich functionality provided by the control library. If you want to extend your existing apps to work on mobile devices and/or develop new apps with rich mobile functionality - this is a project you need to download and explore.

Some of the controls included with this project are:
  • Camera
  • Image Carousel
  • Slide in Menu
  • Spinning Wheel
  • Image Viewer
  • Popup Menu
  • and many more
There is also a Taking Notes podcast which includes an interview with Niklas Heidloff and several other developers and IBM Lotus Business Partners where they talk about the XPages Mobile Controls and how they have been used in the real world. You can download the podcast here.

Checkout the August 2010 OpenNTF Featured Project of the Month - The XPages Mobile Controls >

Find easier active OpenNTF Projects via the new Activeness Indicator

Niklas Heidloff | 12:39:21 AM Tuesday, August 17, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

One of the most requested features in the IdeaJam was an activeness indicator to differentiate active projects from projects that are not further continued. While it is good to know whether a project is still active, the same indicator can be used to filter projects so that it's often easier to find valuable projects.



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