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IBM Connections: Managing Communities

This series of articles explain how to plan, launch, and sustain successful online communities using IBM Connections.  More >

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  • Develop next generation social applications

    IBM announces over 100 new, fully-supported XPages controls and objects. Now design and develop mobile, web and social applications faster than ever. And when you're ready to deploy your XPages applications, use IBM XWork Server to bring them to life. The result: connected employees, activated professional networks, and improved knowledge sharing.

  • IBM Redbooks: Customizing IBM Connections 3.0.1

    IBM Lotus and IBM Redbooks have partnered together to show you how to customize your Connections deployment. IBM Connections 3.0.1 is social networking software that consists of several applications. You can customize IBM Connections by changing the user interface, adding features to applications such as the Home page and Profiles, integrating Profiles with external data, and exploiting the IBM Connections API, among other aspects. This Redbooks Wiki provides details about these and other ways of extending and changing IBM Connections.

  • IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.3 server performance: IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 performance

    IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.3 and IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 have been optimized to reduce the transactions from the client to the server

  • Introducing the IBM XWork Server

    The IBM XWork Server provides an XPages Application Server for your social applications that will help you to extend applications to web and mobile devices, and connect applications to social communities for broader knowledge sharing. XWork Server leverages XPages technology from Lotus Domino and Domino Designer 8.5.3.

  • IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 delivers usability and productivity enhancements to help power social business

    IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 includes a vast array of end-user feature enhancements to increase personal productivity of Lotus Notes, Lotus iNotes™, and Lotus Notes Traveler for users and developers using Domino Designer. See this announcement for more details.

  • IBM XWork Server 8.5.3 leverages XPages technology for quickly developing social business applications for web browsers and mobile devices

    IBM XWork Server 8.5.3 is a competitively priced offering that leverages IBM XPages technology. It allows an application developer to quickly and easily create rich web applications with a Web 2.0 application look and feel. With XWork Server, business partners and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) get a low cost rapid application development platform. See this product announcement for more details.

  • Webcast: IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3

    Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 provides numerous feature enhancements that benefit end-users, developers and administrators. Come listen to a webcast on 6 October 2011 that will detail how version 8.5.3 can help accelerate your becoming a social business.

  • Social business development

    Social businesses focus on the energy, creativity, and decision making of the people. People find what they need more quickly, solve problems faster, and discover valuable expertise and information in ways they weren't even expecting.

  • Configuring SSL encryption for IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1

    This article provides the detailed steps on how to configure Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption for IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1.

  • Announcing IBM Web Experience Factory 7.0.1

    IBM Web Experience Factory 7.0.1, formerly IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory, delivers the fastest and easiest way to develop multichannel exceptional web experiences across desktop, mobile, and tablet platforms.

  • IBM Lotus Connections 3.0.1 Reviewer's Guide

    This Guide provides an extensive overview of the latest version of IBM’s social software, Lotus Connections 3.0, and its nine applications: Home, Profiles, Activities, Blogs, Bookmarks, Communities, Files, Forums, and Wikis. In addition, this guide explains how to extend the features and functions of Lotus Connections to your existing applications.

  • Now Available: IBM Sametime 8.5.2

    IBM Sametime 8.5.2 is designed to help make your business more social by delivering audio and video conferencing in browser-based meetings, extending unified communications to new mobile devices, and enhancing Sametime Advanced.

  • Managing 64-bit memory in IBM Lotus Domino 8.x

    This article discusses IBM Lotus Domino 64-bit on Microsoft Windows 64-bit and on IBM AIX platforms, comparing characteristics, advantages, and limitations.

  • Understanding and troubleshooting IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 to 3.0.1 migration

    Learn how to troubleshoot the IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 to IBM Connections 3.0.1 migration process, including general troubleshooting steps, key troubleshooting information, common issues along with their solutions, and the big picture about the process.

  • Business Partner Enablement Roadmap for IBM Lotus Notes and Domino

    Links and guidance for various sources of education to enhance expertise with use of, administration of, and development of applications for the IBM Lotus Notes and Domino products.

  • IBM Redbooks: Optimizing Lotus Domino Administration

    This IBM Redbooks wiki provides you with information on how to optimize Lotus Domino administration. The focus is to provide Lotus Domino administrators with information on how to get most of their valuable time. Optimization of a Lotus Domino environment is not only a matter of how to set specific configuration parameters on a server or on a client; it is more a conceptual approach on how to address specific needs of the environment.

  • Tips for moving from Microsoft Outlook to IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.2

    Have you just moved away from Microsoft® Outlook® to IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.2? This article discusses some key tips on what preferences to set and ways to configure Lotus Notes to be compatible with the functionalities you were accustomed to in Microsoft Outlook. It addresses tips for mail, calendar, and contacts, along with general tips for across the Notes client.


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Experience

Start here if you are new to XPages and Lotus Domino Designer.

Explore Domino Designer and XPages with this guide that will help get you up to speed quickly.

Learn how to use the Lotus Expeditor Toolkit to build and test Java™ applications for Lotus Notes.

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Join Lotus Domino developers around the world who are working on over 10 million Lotus Notes applications.

· Lotus Notes & Domino Application Development wiki
· XPages development forum
· XPages.info: THE home for XPages developers
· OpenNTF.org
· Planet Lotus



XPages & Composite apps

XPages utilize JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and HTML. Yet, deep programming skills are not required to build powerful, compelling Web and Lotus Notes and Domino applications.

Composite applications are a key element in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). They enable you to easily integrate different types of components and technologies to create contextual applications.

Experience

Start here to learn about XPages with links to overview content, videos, tutorials, and other content that will get you up to speed quickly.

Watch this two-part video series demonstrating how you can use XPages components in a Lotus Notes application.

Discover the power and benefits of composite applications.

Explore detailed examples, sample projects, and more in the IBM Composite Applications wiki.

Connect

Read the XPages blog to learn from a worldwide group of IBM Domino XPages experts.

Listen to Pete Janzen, Senior Product manager for Lotus Domino Designer, talk about the decision to offer a no-charge development license for Domino Designer.

XPages demo app
Sample composite app


  • The Building Domino Web Applications using Domino 8.5.1 Redbooks Wiki outlines the significant improvements in Lotus Domino 8.5.x as a web development platform. It introduces XPages technology, showing how it dramatically shortens the learning curve for Domino developers and enables you to incorporate Web 2.0 features into your web applications.


Community

  • IBM Champions for IBM Collaboration Solutions

    Congratulations to the 50 new IBM Champions announced June 22, 2011! They represent top business leaders, IT professionals, developers, and educators who lead and mentor others to help them make the best use of IBM solutions and services.


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