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1. Bring your Domino applications into
the Activity Stream
Frank van der Linden

2. Roadmap
• Introduction
• IBM Connections 4
• Open standards
• Setup the environment
• Connect to the Activity Stream
• Q and A
Joost van Dongen 11/28/20
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3. Frank van der Linden
• I live in Utrecht in the Netherlands.
• My role is XPages/Domino/Web developer at e-
office since 2000. So I started with Lotus Notes
4.5.x.
• I develop XPages application since the introduction
of XPages in Lotus Notes 8.5.0.
• In my sparetime I do a lot of running and then I
mean a lot.
• And I am married and have 2 daughters
@flinden68
http://www.domino-weblog.nl
nl.linkedin.com/in/flinden68
fli@e-office.com

4. And he works at e-office
• Celebrated in 2011 it’s 20ste
anniversary
• First Lotus Business Partner in
the Netherlands
• E-office is IBM Premier
Business Partner, Microsoft
Gold Partner and RIM Alliance
Elite partner

5. IBM Connections 4

6. IBM Connections 4

7. What is oAuth
• OAuth (Open Authorization) is an open
standard for authorization
• It allows users to share their resources stored
on one site with another site without having to
hand out their credentials
• OAuth allows users to hand out tokens
instead of credentials to their data hosted by a
given service provider.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth

8. oAuth1.0, the 3 leg dance

9. oAuth in the real world

10. OpenSocial
• Public specification that defines a
component hosting environment (container)
• Based on HTML and Javascript, as well as
the Google gadgets framework
• OpenSocial adopted support for Activity
Streams format
• OpenSocial API and oAuth support
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSocial

11. Activity Stream
• Stream of information
• Support of oAuth and OpenSocial gadget
specification
• API’s are available to connect external systems
• Part of Connections 4 and IBM Notes 9.0 Social
Edition

12. Get started – step 1: get access
• If you don’t have an account for Greenhouse, go get it
(https://greenhouse.lotus.com)

13. Get started – step 2: register your app
• oAuth is used, so you need to register your
app.(https://greenhouse.lotus.com/vulcan/sec
urity/provider/appList?serviceProvider=vulcan
Toolkit)

14. Get started – Register your app
• oAuth is used, so you need to register your
app.(https://greenhouse.lotus.com/vulcan/security/pr
ovider/appList?serviceProvider=vulcanToolkit)

15. Get started – Get the databases
• Get the Extension Library of OpenNTF, the 8.5.3 code stream
• Install the Extension Library on Designer and Domino server
• Deploy the Social Enabler database to your Domino server
• Deploy the WebsecurityStore database to the root of your
Domino server
• And sign both databases with the correct ID.

16. Get started – Go to the Websecurity store
• The startpoint is KeysApplications.xsp

17. Get started – Fill in the oAuth keys
• https://greenhouse.lotus.com:443/vulcan/security/provider/requestToken
https://greenhouse.lotus.com:443/vulcan/security/provider/authorize
https://greenhouse.lotus.com:443/vulcan/security/provider/accessToken

18. In to the code – Faces-config.xml
• This file lists bean resources
and navigation rules
• It is located in the WEB-INF
folder in the package explorer.

19. Faces-config.xml - NSFStore
• NSFStore managed bean is used for the location of the
websecurity database
• It will be used by other Managed beans to store oAuth
data.

20. Faces-config.xml – greenHouse managed
bean
• greenHouse managed bean is used to specify the
oAuthEndpoint, and were to store.
• AppId is the id, who is used as Application name in the
SBT application registration page

21. How to get the entries of the Activity Stream
• Create a XPage, and name it
‘ActivityStream’
• Drop a viewpanel on this XPage
• Select Datasource later
• Goto the all properties and select
as datasource the
ActivityStreamData.

22. How to get the entries of the Activity Stream
• The service URL: /vulcan/shindig/rest/activitystreams
• Endpoint: greenHouse, as stated in the Faces-config.xml
• Give the datasource a variable name, so you can connect
to it in your ViewPanel
• Specify in your ViewPanel as value the variable name of
the datasource
• And give the ViewPanel also a variable name

23. Get the actual data out of the stream
Activity Stream On Greenhouse Activity Stream in Yellow and Blue system

24. Get access to some usefull properties
• Title: entry.title
• Posted date: new
java.util.Date(parseInt(entry.postedTime)
• ID: entry.id
• Image: entry.actor.image.url
• Body: entry.body
• JSON of the links to the source:
entry.standardLinks.alternate[0].inline

25. Post to the Activity Stream
• Use the Objectdata
• ObjectData has 2 components
 CreateObject: to compose the object JSON
 SaveObject: save the object to an url.

26. Developer tip: Embedded experience
without oAuth2
• Activate the boostrap page on Connections
• Add to your gadget.xml develop parameters
&__dev_proxyPolicy__=intranet_access&__dev_policySet__=GADGET_BUILT
IN_INTERNAL&__dev_appContexts__=EMBEDXP
More details: http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/lotus/OS_gadget_IC4_final.pdf

27. Sample JSON to post entry
{
"generator": {
"image": { "url": "http://www.e-office.com/eog/nl/website2011.nsf/img_logo.png"},
"id": "Demo app",
"displayName": "XPages Post - Demo app",
"url": "http://ld09.e-office.com/"
},
"actor": {"id": "@me"},
"verb": "post",
"title": "Post from a XPages",
"content": " You have created a post from XPage.",
"updated": "2012-08-23T12:00:00.000Z",
"object": {
"summary": "Post from a XPages",
"objectType": "note",
"id": "xpages12",
"displayName": "Post from a XPages",
"url": "http://ld09.e-office.com/demo/demoAS.nsf/"
},
"connections":{
"actionable":"false",
"broadcast": "true",
"canUnFollow": "true",
"saved":"false"
},
"openSocial":{
"embed": {
"gadget": "http://ld09.e-
office.com/demo/demoAS.nsf/gadget.xml?openfileresource&__dev_proxyPolicy__=intranet_access&__dev_policySet__=GADGET_BUILTIN_INTER
NAL&__dev_appContexts__=EMBEDXP",
"context": ""
},
"deliverTo":[
{"objectType":"person",
"id":"@me"
}
]
}
}

28. Questions

29. Usefull resources
• Extension Library
– http://extlib.openntf.org/
• Social Enabler
– http://socialenabler.openntf.org/
• Activity Stream Community (GreenHouse)
– https://greenhouse.lotus.com/communities/service/html/com
munityview?communityUuid=cab9d6f0-d6f0-4b71-ae49-
8cad85a454fd
• Social Business Toolkit Community
(DeveloperWorks)
– https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/gro
ups/service/html/communityview?communityUuid=0f357879
-ccee-4927-98c1-7bb88d5dc81f

30. Contact details
@flinden68
http://www.domino-weblog.nl
nl.linkedin.com/in/flinden68
fli@e-office.com