Posted by Niklas Heidloff | January 25, 2012
I blogged some time ago about different
types
of XPages developers. One type
of developers are Java developers who use the Eclipse IDE to build their
own extension libraries which can be deployed as OSGi bundles globally
to Domino servers. While this is not as easy as building apps and controls
with Designer it provides more capabilities and allows easy usage in multiple
databases.
These custom libraries use the XPages
Extensibility API. I provided
some time ago simple
samples showing how to use this
API.
Nathan Freeman brought this now to a
new level. His project XSP
Starter Kit has many more samples
and more sophisticated samples.
Additionally Nathan shared some code
that makes it really easy to set up an Eclipse IDE for XPages development:
XPages
SDK for Eclipse. With this project
you don't need the Expeditor toolkit. There is also a wizard to create
your own extension library plugin. Read more in his blog.
When you develop plugins in Eclipse
you can directly debug them (often) without having to redeploy them. Check
out the Debug
Plugin and watch this video.
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