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Executing Java Applets Using Trusted Hosts
This article focuses on Java applet security within Notes. It discusses the design of Java for secure application delivery, running Java within a secure environment, establishing trust, looks at the future of Java for mission-critical applications.
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13 Jan 1997 |
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Jack Ozzie: "Data Man"
In this interview, the No. 6 employee of Iris (he started in 1987) has worked on everything from getting 1-2-3 data into Notes to graphics, rich data types, OLE and ActiveX. For the future, he sees more Java and better Web applications for browsers.
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13 Jan 1997 |
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Using the Notes Date/Time Values
In Notes 4.5 the rich Time/Date format and new time/date graphical controls make it easy to pick dates and display data adjusted to the user's context. This article shows how to use these enhancements in Notes applications, with downloadable example code.
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13 Jan 1997 |
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Creating a Calendar view in Notes
The Notes 4.5 Calendar view displays documents on a calendar, rather than in a traditional tabular view format. This article shows how to use the Calendar view in any application. (Downloadable examples are available in the Sandbox.)
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13 Jan 1997 |
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Lotus Domino Advanced Services: High Availability Powered By Notes
This article defines high availability (continuous access to networked resources despite failures in network components) and describes Lotus Domino Advanced Services, a set of advanced server features of which Domino server clusters are a key part.
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13 Jan 1997 |
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ActiveDocuments deliver next-generation in-place editing
Domino/Notes 4.5 ActiveDocuments expand on the visual or in-place editing functionality provided through OLE 2.0. The sample template (downloadable from the Sandbox) supports documents created in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Paintbrush.
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27 Jan 1997 |
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White paper: Lotus Notes and Distributed Objects
This article lays out the Lotus roadmap for using the open protocols of the Internet. It describes the Notes Object Interfaces (NOI) and Lotus' adoption of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and the Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP).
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27 Jan 1997 |
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Interview: Domino Web Server Team
The team that developed the Domino Web Server talks about its origins in Web Publisher, designing for the limitations of browsers and HTML, the big win in serving dynamic pages, and how a small team did the big job.
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27 Jan 1997 |
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Integrating the Web browser control into your databases
This article describes Microsoft's Web Browser control, an ActiveX control that exposes the IE internal properties and methods, and shows how to build it into a Notes application using a downloadable example template.
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27 Jan 1997 |
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Michelle Peterson: Principal Software Engineer
Michelle Peterson talks about her career in performance testing, the Iris way, and the nitty-gritty of semaphores, context switching vs. I/0 completion ports, and other technical issues of getting a Domino server to support 1,500 users.
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18 Feb 1997 |
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Replication Tuning For Mobile Users
This article discusses replication for mobile users of Notes, and offers tips on space-saving management of replicas, configuring locations, initiating and ending connections, and editing database settings on the Replicator Page.
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18 Feb 1997 |
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POSTnet wins Beacon award
The St. Louis Post Dispatch won Lotusphere's 1997 Beacon award for Best Web site Powered by Domino for POSTnet (www.stlnet.com). In this article, Rich Truex and Joe Ashkar, the site's developers, talk about why they chose Domino.
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18 Feb 1997 |
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Notes Gains All-Star Status in Cleveland
This article describes the Jam Session information station, a Notes application created for the NBA's premiere traveling fan event. This walk-up information terminal application was based on an unofficial feature in Release 4.5 called Kiosk Mode.
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18 Feb 1997 |
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Creating agents in the Personal Web Navigator
This article describes the Personal Web Navigator in Notes Release 4.5 and shows how two agents written for it to automate tasks of Web access: Web Ahead, a worm agent, and Page Minder, an agent that watches a Web page for changes.
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18 Feb 1997 |
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Benchmarking the Next Generation of Internet Servers
This article presents DBench, a benchmark designed to overcome limitations of current Web application server benchmarks. It describes how to use DBench in evaluating the performance of a Web discussion application implemented with Domino.
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01 Mar 1997 |
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Interview: Mike Kudla
Mike Kudla leads the team working on the Notes R5 Mail client, code-named Maui, which he describes as a messaging client that has all the functionality of today's Notes Mail plus support for Internet standard protocols like NNTP, LDAP, and IMAP4.
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10 Mar 1997 |
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The future of Notes and Java
This article describes the next generation of Notes programmability: Java application support for server-based and Notes client execution, to be followed by CORBA-based Java applet integration with all Web browsers.
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10 Mar 1997 |
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The Architecture of the Domino Web Server, Part 1
Part 1 of 2: The Domino Web Server is comprised of a front end, the HTTP Server, and a back end, the Domino App Server. This article focuses on the HTTP Server, a multi-threaded task that listens for Web client requests and sends responses.
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10 Mar 1997 |
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Setting up the Administration Process in your Domain
Part 1 of 3: This article on setting up the Release 4.5 Administration Process in a domain covers designating administration servers, setting up the Administration Requests and Certification Log databases, and configuring access rights for administrators.
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10 Mar 1997 |
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Playing with firewalls
This tutorial explains the basics of firewalls and discusses how Notes and Domino work with all types of firewalls from packet filtering, circuit level, and application proxies, to HTTP proxies.
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10 Mar 1997 |
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Bob Balaban: Inventing the future
Developer Bob Balaban wrote the Notes back-end class libraries for LotusScript and helped develop agents for Notes. In this interview he talks about his work on creating Java back-end classes, CORBA, and Notes support for Java.
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31 Mar 1997 |
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In Focus with Domino.Remote:CAM
Domino.Remote:CAM is a Domino 4.5 server add-in that adds snapshots from a digital camera to a database. This article shows how to set up and control the application from a server or a workstation. Domino.Remote:CAM can be downloaded from the Sandbox.
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31 Mar 1997 |
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The Architecture of the Domino Web Server, Part 2
Part 2 of 2: This article looks at the back end of the Web server and describes how the application server responds to URL command handlers to present static pages and modifiable forms, accept fill-out forms, perform searches, and execute agents.
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31 Mar 1997 |
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Simulating Your Workload Environment with Domino Server.Planner
Domino Server.Planner runs on any Notes 4.5 workstation and analyzes NotesBench production environment loads against certified vendor data across a range of systems. Domino Server.Planner can be downloaded from the Sandbox.
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31 Mar 1997 |
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Roadmap of Administration Process Requests
Part 2 of 3: This article illustrates how the Release 4.5 Administration Process performs its tasks with flowcharts for renaming, converting to hierarchical naming, deleting a people, groups and servers and groups, and moving databases from a cluster server.
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31 Mar 1997 |
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Administration process gotchas and hints, part 3
Part 3 of 3: This article provides tips and guidelines to help you use the Release 4.5 Administration Process. It covers using correct certifiers and public keys, updating Reader and Author fields, recertifying IDs, renaming, and database moves.
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28 Apr 1997 |
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SSL: it's not just for commerce anymore
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) was created to add certificate-authenticated encryption to HTTP transmissions. This article discusses what SSL is, how it co-exists with existing Domino and Notes security protocols, and how Domino implements SSL support.
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28 Apr 1997 |
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Managing users in Domino 4.5 and Windows NT
This tutorial shows how to get started with the Release 4.5 User Synchronization feature, which synchronizes Domino/Notes user information and Windows NT user accounts. It provides step-by-step instructions for three scenarios.
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28 Apr 1997 |
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Jeff Eisen: Making Java practical
The developer of Notes 4.5 client support for Java applets talks about the current state of Java as a development language, Java security and letting Java applets use new Notes trusted host and trusted proxy features, and his observations on JavaScript.
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28 Apr 1997 |
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Integrating C&S into a group application
This article describes how to integrate C&S into applications. It shows the steps to follow to implement three types of C&S applications: centralized group scheduling, event scheduling, and ad hoc applications.
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28 Apr 1997 |
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Merging Domino domains into one
This article is a step-by-step guide to merging multiple domains into one by merging the separate address books into one composite Public Address Book for the domain. It also discusses ways to customize the merge process.
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16 Jun 1997 |
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Domino and JavaScript: dynamic partners (Part 1)
Part 1 of 3: This article compares Java and JavaScript, looks at JavaScript as part of a new Webthink application model, and discusses some guidelines for when and where you might want to use JavaScript in your applications.
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16 Jun 1997 |
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Designing a secure Domino app
This article examines the security issues in making Domino databases available to Web users. Its description of the hierarchy of access controls will help developers and administrators plan and create security for Web applications.
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16 Jun 1997 |
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Adding a Friendly Ad-hoc Query Tool to Domino applications
This article describes how to add a powerful, easy-to-use, ad-hoc query capability to any Domino 4.5 application. The design uses formula language and LotusScript to create a Custom Query form and submit it to the Notes full-text search engine.
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16 Jun 1997 |
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Setting up phone numbers for mobile connections
This article explains the steps in setting up a Notes client to a dial-up connections: set up and enable ports, create Location documents, and add server connection documents. (This article does not cover RAS or other third-party software.)
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16 Jun 1997 |
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Michael Clark: Easy Install
The developer in charge of all of the installation kits for Notes clients and servers talks about how he got to be the install expert, how the Web has changed his job, and the brand new, lighter Web-downloadable Notes client coming in Notes 4.6.
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16 Jun 1997 |
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Testing TCP/IP connections with NotesCONNECT
NotesCONNECT (a Notes application downloadable from the Sandbox) troubleshoots Notes TCP/IP connection problems by using Notes API calls (but not the Public Address Book or Notes address resolution logic) to make TCP/IP connections.
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16 Jun 1997 |
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Notes 4.6: Overview
With version 4.6 the Notes client becomes a strong standalone application for managing personal information. This article catalogs enhancements in information management, Internet mail and browsing, and desktop integration.
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17 Jun 1997 |
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Controlling the agents in your system
This article introduces the controls on agent execution, including access control lists (ACLs), agent types, the difference between shared and personal agents, and execution location. It also discusses LotusScript properties that help control agents.
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26 Aug 1997 |
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Notes 4.6: Editing mail with Lotus WordPro or Microsoft Word
Integration features in Notes 4.6 let users choose Lotus WordPro or Word for Windows (or, indeed, native Notes editing services) as their mail editor. This article looks at how (OLE DocObjects) and why (International settings and alternate languages).
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Notes Designer 4.6: New Web design features
Notes Designer for Domino 4.6 is the first step towards a true Web design client. This article looks at new features for designing Web applications, including embedded elements, navigators, buttons, computed text, HTML, and anchor links.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Notes Designer 4.6: Integrating Java applets into Notes
Domino 4.6 can insert Java applets into Notes forms and documents either directly or as a referenced URL. This article looks at how to create an applet and insert it or link to it, and offers tips on limitations and troubleshooting.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Notes 4.6: POP3 and SMTP support (interview)
Developer Jackie Ferguson talks about her role in charge of adding SMTP and POP3 mail support to the Notes 4.6 client, the differences between POP3 and IMAP, and the hardest part of the project -- support for international languages.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Notes 4.6: POP3 and SMTP support
Notes 4.6 support for POP3 and SMTP brings Internet mail to Notes users, and brings Internet mail users the benefits of the Notes tools and user interface. This article looks at setting up the Notes client for Internet mail, sending, and receiving.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Notes 4.6: Microsoft Internet Explorer integration (interview)
In this interview developers Teresa Deane and Jay Rosenthal discuss how the Notes 4.6 client uses Microsoft's WebBrowser Control to make Internet Explorer an integrated Notes application.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Notes 4.6: Microsoft Internet Explorer integration
Notes 4.6 support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) ActiveX control in Domino applications. This article shows how to install the control and discusses its ties to the system registry, LotusScript enhancements, and Web browser control events.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Notes 4.6: Managing documents with the MS Office Library template (interview)
Developer Ryan Jansen talks about his work on enhancing the document library templates to provide Active Doc support for Microsoft Office, as well as the alternate mail editor templates for Microsoft Word and Lotus Wordpro.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Notes Designer 4.6: Down to earth with Notes Designer for Domino (interview)
The Designer 4.6 development team talks about the convergence in the audience for Designer -- it's both Web and Notes designers -- and the work that went into getting rid of $$ constructs and making Notes elements like views and folder usable on the Web.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Notes Designer 4.6: Developer tools for building better Web sites
This article looks at tools to help develop better Web sites using Notes. It describes: the Lotus BeanMachine, for creating Java applets; Domino.Action, for creating template-driven Domino Web sites, and Notes Global Designer, a database translation tool.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Notes 4.6: Managing documents with the MS Office Library template
Domino 4.6 updates the Microsoft Office Library template with better OLE/ActiveX integration of the MS applications. This article looks at how to get started with the template, and how to customize it and use it with other OLE/ActiveX applications.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Domino 4.6: Running Java agents in Domino
This article describes how Java agents differ from Java servlets and JavaBeans, and how they are imported, scheduled, tested, and executed in Notes.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Domino 4.6: Accessing the Domino directory with LDAP
The Domino 4.6 support for LDAP is a step towards getting true directory assistance for Internet mail. This article describes LDAP, looks at how Domino supports it, and shows how to set up LDAP support on a Domino network.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Notes 4.6: Editing mail with Lotus WordPro and Microsoft Word (interview)
Notes 4.6 lets users integrate either Lotus WordPro or Microsoft Word for Windows as their Notes mail editor. Ryan Jansen tells how he modified the Notes Mail template, while Dollie Gansz describes the Notes an ActiveX Document Container.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Notes 4.6: Contact management features (interview)
Robby Shaver, the designer, and Raj Patil and Rob Slapikoff, developers of the new Notes 4.6 Personal Portfolio feature, talk about how this searchable collections of Notes databases with a centralized navigator came into being.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Notes 4.6: Contact management features
The Notes 4.6 client is the first step towards integrating personal information and contact management (PIM) features into Notes. This article tours the new features and user interface of Notes 4.6 contact management.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Domino 4.6: Up and running with Domino 4.6 (interview)
Senior developers talk about new features in the soon-to-be-released Domino 4.6 server, including support for Internet protocols, administration tools, a faster HTTP server, and support for server-side Java agents, and better integration with Windows NT.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Domino 4.6: NNTP News server
Domino 4.6 supports the Internet standard Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). This article discusses the benefits of using Domino to serve newsgroups, and how to set up and configure NNTP on a Domino server.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Domino 4.6: New graphical tools for easier Domino administration
Domino 4.6 includes new graphical tools that make it easier to set up and administer a server. These are comprised of a server setup database and a browser-based administration tool. This article takes you on a tour of both features.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Domino 4.6: MIME support
Domino 4.6 supports Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME). This article looks at what that means for recipients of Internet mail, users of Internet mail clients --and Domino administrators who will set up and configure it.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Domino 4.6: Internet messaging with the SMTP MTA
Domino 4.6 makes the SMTP MTA (Message Transfer Agent) part of the core Domino server, so Notes mail can connect to the Internet and other e-mail networks. This article explains how the SMTP MTA works and the benefits of its integration with Domino.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Domino 4.6: Getting more out of Internet mail with IMAP
Domino 4.6 supports Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), a standard for managing an Internet-based mailbox. This article describes how Domino supports the standard and shows how to get the service set up in Domino.
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03 Sep 1997 |
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Tips on debugging Java agents
Domino 4.6 Java agents, but doesn't include a Java IDE (integrated development environment) like the one for LotusScript, so how to debug your Java agents? This article describes how to rewrite the agent to run stand-alone so you can use any Java IDE for debugging.
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01 Oct 1997 |
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Domino and JavaScript: Dynamic Partners (Part 2)
Part 2 of 3: This article explains how to do field validation with JavaScript, and covers topics including testing for browser type, JavaScript functions, input data types, retrieving field values, and cleaning up strings. Code examples are included.
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01 Oct 1997 |
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Webifying an existing Notes application
This article presents a process to follow when modifying an existing application for the Web. Topics include planning your application, designing forms and views, and putting your application to work.
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01 Oct 1997 |
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Notes: A sustainable platform architecture
This article is an in-depth examination of the Notes/Domino architecture, which it presents as a series of layers radiating out from a central core of operating-system-style services -- object store, security, replication, directory services, and more.
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01 Oct 1997 |
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Interview: Charlie Kaufman
In this interview, Notes security expert Charlie Kaufman talks about SSL, S/MIME, X.509 v.3 certificates for R5, and how he figured out how to make the exportable edition of Notes nearly as secure as the North American 64-bit edition.
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01 Oct 1997 |
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Design Synopsis: Creating database blueprints
This article explores the features of Design Synopsis in Designer 4.6, discusses who needs the tool and how to run it, and looks at future enhancements.
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03 Nov 1997 |
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Tips on monitoring Domino statistics and events
This article looks at the tools for monitoring Domino's statistics and events and how they help administrators keep track of server conditions by issuing notices and alerts -- for example, whenever a server is running low on disk space.
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03 Nov 1997 |
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Signing on with Domino Remote:DISPLAY
Domino Remote:DISPLAY is a server add-in that lets you use Domino to send messages to a remote LED display. It can be operated from the server, a Notes workstation or a Web browser. This article tells you how to download and set up Domino Remote:DISPLAY.
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03 Nov 1997 |
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Interview: Doug Conmy
The developer of many innovative features in the Notes 4.6 mobile client talks about some of the most important, like the replicator page and stacked replicas, and looks ahead to mobility features in the upcoming R5.
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03 Nov 1997 |
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Notes.Net Exposed: Using a database to store Web site graphics
This article looks at how Notes.net serves up its graphics from a separate database on its Domino servers. The database, Files.nsf, can be downloaded, studied and customized.
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01 Dec 1997 |
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Workload balancing with Domino clusters
This article explores some of the common approaches to workload balancing available to Domino administrators, with special emphasis on the server workload balancing capabilities of Domino Advanced Services' clustering feature.
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01 Dec 1997 |
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The hidden power of Profile documents
Profile documents are a useful tool for storing and retrieving user-specific or database-specific values. This tutorial shows how to create a profile form, use @commands and LotusScript to create and edit profiles, and edit profile documents from the Web.
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01 Dec 1997 |
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On top of the discussion with Responder 3.0
Responder is a Notes 4.6 proxy agent that watches databases you're interested in and pushes the particular content you're interested in to you in newsletter format in mail. Responder is available for download.
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01 Dec 1997 |
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Domino and JavaScript: Dynamic Partners (Part 3)
Part 3 of 3: This article explains how to create interactive dialog boxes for Web applications using Notes forms, pass-thru HTML and JavaScript. It uses the functionality and look of the native Domino Public Address Book for the Web as an example.
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05 Jan 1998 |
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Trust Yourself: Become your own Certification Authority
This article describes certificate-based SSL security for Web applications, discusses the benefits of using an internal Certification Authority (CA) versus obtaining certificates from an external CA, and explains the process for setting up a CA server.
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05 Jan 1998 |
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Notes.net Exposed: Searching the site from our home page
This article looks at how searching works on the Notes.Net. It discusses the methods for searching Domino Web sites, the details of exactly how it's done on Notes.net, and what you can learn from it.
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05 Jan 1998 |
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Matt Siess: Mixing Java, JavaBeans and Notes
In this interview, an Iris developer talks about his work to integrate Java, Java applets, and JavaBeans into Domino and Notes 4.6 and R5. He discusses Java technologies, and whether Domino developers should learn Java.
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05 Jan 1998 |
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Making server connections from Notes
Part 1 of 3: This tutorial focuses on the types of connections a Notes client can use to access a Domino server, how they are set up using the address book and location documents, and how they work.
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05 Jan 1998 |
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Filtering data for Domino Web users
This short article discusses three techniques for filtering data so that Web users see only the data they want to see (or you want them to see) -- ad hoc queries, drill-down views, and Reader fields.
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05 Jan 1998 |
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Server Connections: Just passing thru
Part 2 of 3: This article discusses the basics of passthru connections. It shows how to set them up in a personal address book and how to use them with LAN, dial-up, and Internet connections.
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15 Jan 1998 |
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Expanded Command Caching in Domino 4.61
The Domino HTTP server keeps a volatile, in-memory cache of requested HTML pages called the Command Cache. This article describes how the Command Cache works so your applications can take advantage of its capabilities and performance gains it provides.
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26 Jan 1998 |
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Combining forms and views for friendlier Web applications (Part 1)
Part 1 of 2: This article shows how to use Designer 4.6 to make forms and views work together on the Web. As an example it shows how to add a quick-find search bar to your Web applications.
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02 Feb 1998 |
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Shocking your Domino Web site
This article describes Shockwave technology for adding sound, animation to Web pages, and shows how to add Shockwave files to a Domino 4.5 or later Web site. It discusses the EntreVision, Inc. Chile Pepper site built to show off Domino on the Web.
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02 Feb 1998 |
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Putting Connection documents to work
Part 3 of 3: This article discusses specific connection scenarios using LANs, dial-up, the Internet, and remote LAN service -- and how to use Server Connection documents to extend the reach of the Notes client.
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02 Feb 1998 |
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Notes.Net Exposed: Registering users on your Domino Web site
This article dissects the Notes.net registration database and its forms and agents and discusses the challenges of the clustered environment. (For changes since R5, see What's new in the Registration template and download the new template.)
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02 Feb 1998 |
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Java servlets: Extending your Domino applications
Servlets are server-side Java components that perform better and are more easily extensible than CGI programs for Web applications. This article introduces servlets and how to use them with Domino and shows how to code the Hello World servlet.
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02 Feb 1998 |
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Java introspection: Easier reading and writing of Notes documents
This article tells how to create a new, reusable Java class called NotesDocumentObject that simplifies reading and writing with the back-end classes for Java by using introspection, a Java program's ability to examine itself.
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02 Feb 1998 |
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SSL client authentication: It's a matter of trust
This article introduces client authentication with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer, a security protocol), discusses its benefits and explains how to set up SSL client authentication on a Domino 4.6 or 4.6.1 server.
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02 Mar 1998 |
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Troubleshooting agents
This article introduces tools you can use to troubleshoot Domino 4.6 agents, and looks at some common problems with agents and their solutions. (For help with R5 and Notes/Domino 6, see the LDD Today article Troubleshooting agents in Notes/Domino 5 and 6.)
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02 Mar 1998 |
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Julie Kadashevich: Managing the Agent Manager
In this interview the developer in charge of the Agent Manager talks about the basics of agents and Agent Manager, trouble-shooting, security, and where it's going in R5.0.
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02 Mar 1998 |
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Combining forms and views for friendlier Web applications (Part 2)
Part 2 of 2: This article focuses on how to create views using Designer 4.6 that allow users to select and perform actions on multiple documents and edit directly in the view.
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02 Mar 1998 |
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Book Review: Programming Domino 4.6 with Java
"Iris Today" staffer Barbara Burch finds this book by long-time Lotus and Iris developer Bob Balaban especially strong on basic concepts behind the Java Notes Object Interface classes and why developers "should care about Lotus Domino, or Java, or both."
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01 Apr 1998 |
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Designing Domino 4.6 sites using frames
This article introduces frames, describes how they work, and shows how to implement them using the Frameset template in Domino 4.6. It uses the Lotus Web site as an example. Example code is included.
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01 Apr 1998 |
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Notes.net Exposed: Gathering feedback on your Web site
This article uses the Notes.Net customized feedback forms as an example of how to collect feedback into a central database, sort it into views, and use an agent to respond to messages. The database is available for download.
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01 Apr 1998 |
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Robby Shaver: UI Guy
Robby Shaver, the designer for the Notes R5 client, talks about new user-interface features that make it easier to navigate and use, like the Welcome page and tabs.
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01 Apr 1998 |
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The ABC's of using the ACL
This primer explains why and how the ACL evolved into its present key role in the Notes/Domino architecture. It reviews ACL components and the ACL dialog box and offers tips for developers and users on using ACLs.
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01 Apr 1998 |
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The upgrade is in the mail
This tutorial explains how to use the Upgrade by Mail to have users upgrade their mail files or client software. Send them a notice that includes a button. They click to run the upgrade process, and Notes can send you a message confirming the upgrade.
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01 Apr 1998 |
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Measuring your Domino server's reliability
This article describes a new tool called Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), which you can use to monitor the uptime of your Domino servers. MTBF is not an official product of Lotus or Iris, and is therefore, unsupported.
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01 May 1998 |
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Troubleshooting Free Time Lookups in Notes
Notes supports free-time lookups in a distributed fashion across calendars kept in other applications and platforms and this process can get out of whack. This article looks at how to troubleshoot and resolve common problems with free-time lookup.
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