iNotes calendar control - a good example to get started

In my previous blog post about the iNotes calendar control, I talked about some issues I was having with the iNotes calendar control which is part of the XPages Extension library. Yes, there are some issues, but to mke a long story short: the control is a great resource. If you want to learn more about this control, I can highly recommend to have look at the latest release of the TeamRoom Template which is deployed to your Lotus IBM Notes client.

If you want to learn more about the iNotes calendar control, check out the calendarView custom control.

BTW: On this control, I experience the same issue with the events as described here.

There is also a TeamRoom project available on OpenNTF (older version). And a demo video by Ed Brill demoing the TeamRoom template. The OpenNTF project description says:

This new TeamRoom OpenNTF 8.5.2 template has been built as a showcase application for the XPages Extension Library.  Approximately 80 different XPages Extension Library controls have been used in the construction of the TeamRoom OpenNTF 8.5.2 template, therefore making it a great learning resource on how to leverage the XPages Extension Library!

In my opinion this hits the nail on the head. This is excatly the reason why everyone learning developing XPages applications (beyond the entry level) should have a look at this template. Additionally this version of the TeamRoom template provides a much better Web UI. So your users might benefit from this template too :-)

Domino OSGi Tasklet Services - some useful links

I am currently working on a DOTS project. Since I have started this project I benefited a lot from various community resources out there. First of all, thank you very much to the originating authors for sharing these resources with all of us! I was thinking that starting a link collection for DOTS might be a good idea for others who want dive deeper in this topic...

So this is a list of some valuable resources I used :

• Presentation from BLUG by Frank van der Linden:
  The power of DOTS
  This presentation is very useful if you want to get a comprehensive overview of DOTS and details on how to setup a development environment to get started!
• Various DOTS-related Blog Posts by Serdar Basegmez
• IBM Connect 2013 Session Slide by Bruce Elgort and Serdar Basegmez:
  BP207 - Meet the Java Application Server you already own - IBM Domino
• OpenNTF video by Niklas Heidloff:
  Extend Domino Servers via OSGi/Java
  This video also shows how to setup Eclipse as well as Domino and some samples.
• OpenNTF DOTS project page
• ICONUK presentation by Serdar Basegmez and Frank van der Linden:
  Background Tasks: An XPager's Guide to Process Server-Side Jobs on Domino
• NotesIn9 093: Introduction to DOTS by Serdar Basegmez
• Another helpful Blog Post by Rene Winkelmeyer with some interesting details you should not miss:
  DOTS - considerations about a real cool gem for IBM Domino

Feel free to add more links in the comments section :)