Come to this session to get an update about everything related to OpenNTF, the open source community for IBM Collaboration Solutions. See the contest winning XPages projects live and learn about the new open source projects for IBM Connections. The session will also cover the IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK which allows XPages, Java and JavaScript developers to easily access IBM Connections and IBM SmartCloud for Social Business from custom applications. Attend this session to see demos of the latest functionality and new samples of the toolkit.

1. Ulrich Krause, Milano, 26 e 27 Settembre 2013
The Latest and Greatest from OpenNTF

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About: Ulrich Krause
Administrator /Developer since 1993
Senior Software Architect at BCC
OpenNTF Contributor
OpenNTF Board of Directors
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( still for a few days )
Blog http://www.eknori.de
IBM Champion 2011/2012/2013
Notes Forum (http://www.atnotes.de)

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Agenda
OpenNTF Overview
Collaboration Today
XPages.info
XSnippets
Contests
Demo of some applications
• too many to demo them all
Intellectual Property Policy
Get Engaged

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OpenNTF Overview
Open source community for IBM Collaboration Solutions
• 800+ open source projects
• 200k downloads / year
• Cleared releases on OpenNTF, source code optionally on
GitHub
OpenNTF Inc.
• 31 member companies
• Board of directors, technical committee, IP manager

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OpenNTF - More than open source
Collaboration Today
• http://collaborationtoday.info/
XPages.info
• http://xpages.info/XPagesHome.nsf/Home.xsp
YouTube channel
• http://www.youtube.com/user/OpenNTF
Webinars
• http://webinars.openntf.org/

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Collaboration Today
A curated news site for ICS professionals at
collaborationtoday.info and at @Collab2Day
Content maintained by a team of curators
Covering news about various IBM products like IBM
Connections, IBM Domino etc. and topics like app dev,
mobile, cloud etc.

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XPages.info
Covering all things XPages
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Getting started
Stack Overflow
Downloads
Resources
Contests
Demos
Videos

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XSnippets
Collection of small, reusable code snippets
Java, Javascript, LotusScript, CSS, XPages
http://openntf.org/XSnippets.nsf/home.xsp

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Contests
Four very successful development contests in 2011
and 2012
125 submissions
100 contributors including 48 first time contributors
Quartely XSnippets contests

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Appathon
Two social app dev contests
• IBM Connections
• XPages
Sponsored by
• TIMETOACT GROUP
• WebGate
• IBM developerWorks
Prizes
• IBM Connections: 5 x $1000
• XPages: 5 x $1000
• Plus: Promotions through blog entries, screenshots and videos

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Contests – Common Rules
Submissions need to be open sourced on
OpenNTF
• Deadline: XPages: June 23rd 2013,
• Connections: November 3rd 2013
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Reusability, consumability and documentation
"Wow" factor and completeness of solution
Overall business value
Amount of work to build the submission(s)

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XPages App Dev Contest
All types of OpenNTF projects can be nominated
that use XPages or OSGi. This includes the
following areas:
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XPages applications (NSFs)
XPages custom controls (in NSFs)
Custom XPages extension libraries
Custom OSGi bundles for IBM Domino
DOTS tasklets
All contributions need to work on IBM Lotus
Domino 8.5.3 and/or IBM Domino 9.0

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IBM Connections App Dev Contest
All types of OpenNTF projects can be nominated
that utilize IBM Connections. This includes the
following areas:
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Accessing IBM Connections via the Social Business Toolkit SDK
Accessing IBM Connections via the Connections REST APIs
OpenSocial Gadgets for IBM Connections
iWidgets for IBM Connections
Customization solutions for IBM Connections
All contributions need to work on IBM Connections
4.0 and can use the latest fix packs
Developers can use a free shared development
environment in the cloud

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org.openntf.domino

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org.openntf.domino
Why use it ?

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org.openntf.domino
How to use it ?

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org.openntf.domino
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org.openntf.domino
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org.openntf.domino
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Dojo Data Grid
Features and variations of Dojo Data Grids in XPages.
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Basic Features
Opening Documents
Sorting, Full-Text Search & Field-Specific Search
Editable Columns - Including highlighting edited rows
HTML and Icon Columns
Enhanced Grid with Drag and Drop plugin
Enhanced Grid with Filter plugin
Enhanced Grid with Print plugin
Enhanced Grid with Export plugin
Enhanced Grid with Context Menu plugin
Categorized Tree Grid
Categorized Tree Grid with Totals
More information on each feature is included in this
blog series: http://xcellerant.net/dojo-grids-in-xpages/

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Dojo Data Grid

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Tika For XPages
Makes Apache Tika available as Bean for XPages
The Apache Tika™ toolkit detects and extracts
metadata and structured text content from various
documents using existing parser libraries
http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/project.xsp
?action=openDocument&name=Tika4XPages

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Tika – Read Metadata From Image

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Bootstrap4XPages
Provides the Twitter Bootstrap rendering technology to
XPages
Bootstrap4XPages is defined as a custom XPages library
and delivered as an Eclipse update site
The theme covers all the regular XPages controls, as
well as the ones delivered as part of the extension
library and generally rendered using OneUI
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Bootstrap 2.3.1 (https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap)
JQuery 1.8.2 (http://jquery.com/)
Dojo Bootstrap (https://github.com/xsokev/Dojo-Bootstrap)
DBootstrap (http://thesociable.github.io/dbootstrap/)

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Getting Started with Bootstrap4Xpages
Get a copy of the project
• Download the compiled project from OpenNTF
• Installation experience is similar to the XPages Extension Library
Install the Bootstrap4XPages update site in Designer
• Go to Designer preferences, activate the eclipse plugin install option,
install the update site
• Detailed instructions: http://ibm.co/13FSXl3
Installing Bootstrap4XPages on the Domino server
• Install the plug-ins directly within the Domino server file system, or in an
NSF update site
• Detailed instructions: http://ibm.co/19qx082 or http://ibm.co/pkA7Xw

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Steps for Running Bootstrap4Xpages
Enable the XPages libraries
• [x] com.ibm.xsp.extlib.library
• [x] org.openntf.xsp.bootstrap.library
Set the XPages theme
• bootstrapv2.3.1
• bootstrapv2.3.1r
• (“r” is for loading the responsive CSS)

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Bootstrap For XPages

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Bootstrap For XPages
xsp.theme=bootstrapv2.3.1
xsp.theme=bootstrapv2.3.1r

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More Information about Bootstrap4XPages
1h Webinar ( 10-SEP-2013 )
• http://webinars.openntf.org
Slides from the webinar are available on slideshare
• http://de.slideshare.net/philipperiand/bootstrap4-x-pages
Video: How to consume and how to extend
Bootstrap4XPages
• http://www.openntf.org/blogs/openntf.nsf/d6plinks/NHEF-9BF94B

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myWebGate Social Software
myWebGate is your own social network, with your data,
your rules and under your control

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myWebGate SCRUM
Manage your development projects
myWebGate Scrum is a myWebGate based Application.
It is inspired by the scrum framework

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JDBC Access for IBM Lotus Domino
Expand the query capability of Note/Domino (N/D)
• N/D views already provide a powerful query mechanism, with
unique capabilities like categorization, responses... but
native N/D views lack some key features like dynamic queries
and joins between views. The features Domino views lack are
exactly those at which SQL excels
Reporting – Data analytics
• SQL is the de facto standard used by reporting/data analysis
tools. Making N/D data behave like relational data suddenly
opens it to a large set of tools that understand JDBC

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JDBC Access for IBM Lotus Domino + B.I.R.T
BIRT is an open source Eclipse-based reporting
system that integrates with your Java/Java EE
application to produce compelling reports

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JDBC Access for IBM Lotus Domino
Virtual Tables

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Unplugged XPages Mobile Controls
Set of mobile controls for web browsers on your iPhone,
iPad, or Android device.
https://github.com/unplugged/unplugged-controls/wiki

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Unplugged XPages Mobile Controls

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Unplugged XPages Mobile Controls

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Intrapages - The Social Intranet
Intrapages is the only application that
allows you to have Registered users,
Linkedin users, Twitter users, Facebook
users, Domino users and Active Directory
users in the same application sharing
content. (optional of course) - This is
true social business.
Intrapages won the 4th Development
Contest at openNTF 2012
http://www.intrapages.com/intra.nsf/ho
me.xsp

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Intrapages - Ideas

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Intrapages - Announcements

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Intrapages - Main

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Mindoo Geohash
"Mindoo Geohash" demonstrates techniques to work
with geospatial data in IBM Lotus Notes/Domino
Uses the Google Geocoding API to retrieve coordinates
For effiency reasons, we do not scan through the whole
dataset to find locations nearby, but use so called
Geohashes to precompute the relevant location
document subset in the lookup Notes View that needs
to be scanned
For a deeper understanding how Geohashes work, use
the Geohash Demonstrator to find the surrounding
geohashes for an address

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Mindoo Geohash

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Mindoo Geohash

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XPages MasterClass
IBM, Dublin, 2 Days in October 2012
In this first XPages Masterclass video series, you will
gain insight into the XPages Request Processing
Lifecycle - this is the "center of gravity" for every
XPages request and response and you will learn why it
is important for you as an XPages Developer to
understand it.
Series 1 includes four video's - an introduction video,
plus three explanation/demonstration videos
http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/project.xsp
?action=openDocument&name=XPages%20Masterclass

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IP Goals
Rigourous – but flexible
To be taken seriously, OpenNTF needs to be
closer to Eclipse and Apache rather than
SourceForge
• Companies trust software that comes from Apache and Eclipse
• On SourceForge, anything goes
However, there are members of the Community
who want to be able to use GPL license:
• To prevent others from making commercial products
• Or since they want to use GPL-licensed components

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IP Goals (cont.)
Some contributors didn't want to submit to
rigourous process
And we have Legacy Code
Solution was to clearly identify code that met
Eclipse/Apache-like IP rules

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IP Policy
All contributors must be covered by ICLA or CCLA
• no exceptions!
All contributions must be under Apache or one of
GPL3 family of licenses
• Rare exceptions if use of these licenses not possible
Contributions start out as “Not Cleared”
Companies will not touch “Not Cleared projects.
Github is working repository – projects cleared on
“release” to OpenNTF site.
We create “Teams” on Github with write access to
their projects

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Get engaged
Contribute projects and snippets
Report defects, create feature requests
Create projects reviews, rate projects and
comment blogs
Participate in the Technical Committee
Become a member company
Leverage the advertisment options

51. The Latest and Greatest from OpenNTF
Follow OpenNTF
Web pages
• OpenNTF.org, esp. the blog http://blog.openntf.org/
• CollaborationToday.info
• XPages.info
Twitter
• @openntf , @openntfprojects, @xsnippets, @collab2day
Feeds
• http://collaborationtoday.info/follow.xsp
• http://blog.openntf.org/blogs/openntf.nsf/stories.xml
YouTube channel
• http://www.youtube.com/openntf
GitHub
• https://github.com/OpenNTF

52. Questions ?
Feedback
ulrich_krause@bcc.biz