• REST Services for Notes/Expeditor

    By Ralf Ludwig 1 decade ago

    The REST Services open great possibilities to the XPages. But what, if the users want to use the XPages application offline and locally? In that case the REST Services can't be used for the XPages development at the moment.

    Please make the REST Services available to the Lotus Notes Client too. If shouldn't be a complex task, because below the Notes Client the Expeditor is running with a web-container, as it is in the Domino 8.5.3 now. As far as I have understood, the REST Services is an OSGI servlet that is running in that web-container.

    • Partially available

      By Philippe Riand 1 decade ago

      The rest services are enabled from an XPages on the client (using the XPages REST component), but not as standalone services. The issue on the client is security. As you know, the client is using ECLs to control what the application can do, like accessing a database, based on the id of the signer. To make this work, we have  to know the designer id of the caller, and thus it must come from an XPages as we know it.

      In short, enabling standalone REST services raises security challenges. You can do it yourself, by providing a custom servlet, but be  careful with the security holes you can open.