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When using WebSphere Application Server and Lotus Domino together to create an ebusiness application or portal, which topology you choose will depend on the purpose of the site and the software you plan on using to deploy it...

Oct 26, 2005

Lotus Domino and WebSphere Portal are a perfect combination for creating collaborative e-business environments. But, as with any collaborative application or portal that enables access to corporate data over the Internet...

Jan 10, 2006

Many Notes/Domino shops are now adding IBM Workplace messaging for new or existing users. Courtesy of IBM's new Redbook, Lotus Workplace release 2.0.1 Products and Lotus Domino 6.5.x Together: Integration Handbook, this tip provides...

Feb 21, 2006

With many Domino professionals having to deal more and more with the Java-based WebSphere platform in their IT environments, they need to know how to access Domino data from WebSphere Application Server. Fortunately, there are...

May 25, 2005

As IBM Workplace and WebSphere become more ingrained in Lotus Domino shops, Domino developers face the opportunity and need to bring Notes/Domino applications to the Workplace desktop. This tip discusses how to do that...

Mar 21, 2006
The value of IBM Workplace is as a uniform front end that can run on a variety of clients and operating systems, enabling Domino as well as non-Domino environments to provide users with consistent, customizable interface to all of...
Sep 27, 2005

On the second Wednesday of each month, members of the New England Notes and Domino Users Group gather in Waltham, Mass. The group of about 30 Domino developers and administrators come to learn about topics ranging from DB2 and Java...

Mar 31, 2004

Skaugen Petro-Trans, an oil lightering company based in Houston, was primarily a Microsoft Windows shop when, in 2004, it began searching for a portal framework on which to build a customer information portal. The company, which...

Sep 8, 2005

For Patrick Abel, president of Special Moments Photography in Plymouth, Mich., IBM Lotus Domino's collaboration capabilities were the solution to a troubling problem.

Special Moments, a wedding photography firm, was overwhelmed...

Oct 4, 2004

Tommy Wu is like many Domino developers and administrators. Wu, who works as a project engineer for MCI in Richardson, Texas, likes Domino's flexible database and e-mail capabilities, its easy-to-use directory security and the...

Jun 8, 2004

Last summer, IBM Lotus turned the world upside down for Domino developers by streamlining its certification program, scrapping the venerated "Lotus Certified Professional" title in favor of the more corporate "IBM Certified...

Aug 23, 2004

Despite the fear many Domino developers have that they must either stick with Domino, risking obsolescence, or dump Domino and move to WebSphere -- the decision is not nearly so stark. There are a number of ways to tie the two together...

May 25, 2004

One way to integrate Domino applications into a WebSphere environment is to create Domino portlets to run in WebSphere Portal. To make it easier, IBM and its partners have created a plethora of pre-built portlets and tools to help...

Jun 24, 2004

To adequately understand the performance of a hardware or software system, you need to understand two things: what performance data can be captured for analysis and what tools are out there to help you analyze the data.

All...

Jul 28, 2004

Portals are emerging as the next-generation desktop, providing employees, partners and customers with the specific information and tools they need. A portal can be used to provide access to various types of corporate content, to...

Sep 28, 2004

In last month's tip, you learned about the various features and functions of WebSphere Portal. This month, the focus turns to the challenging task of setting up the WebSphere Studio and Portal Toolkit for creating, testing and...

Oct 25, 2004

If you plan to use WebSphere Portal to provide access to enterprise applications and data, then you need to become familiar with the workings of portlets, the building blocks of portals.

A key aspect of portlet design is defining...

Nov 23, 2004

This article on WebSphere Portal and portlets looks at best practices when designing portlets, either for new applications or for incorporating Domino applications into the WebSphere Portal.

Now that you're ready to start...

Feb 22, 2005

What can you do with Web services? Quite a lot, it seems, if you pay attention to the many analyst reports and media articles on the topic. But much of the talk about Web services assumes that all corporate IT developers have A) a deep...

Dec 20, 2004

Portlets are extremely useful tools for Domino developers who need to integrate Domino applications with WebSphere. Moreover, IBM has made it easier to use portlets for Domino integration by creating a number of off-the-shelf...

Jan 19, 2005

Most organizations with any active Web site or portal use dozens of HTML forms to pass data to the back-end DB2 or Domino NSF database. But as XML becomes more common, forms technology needs to be updated from HTML to XML.

One option...

Feb 6, 2006

As Java and Java-based application servers such as WebSphere become standard elements in most IT environments, the need to migrate Domino applications to Java increases. In this, the first of a two-part story, the authors explore...

Jun 22, 2005

In our July WebSphere tip, "Monitoring WebSphere performance," you learned what resources WebSphere has, how WebSphere applications use those resources and how to monitor them. Now comes the challenging part: determining what to...

Aug 24, 2004

Whatever your organization's needs, IBM probably has a WebSphere Application Server to meet them. But each level of the WAS V5 has significantly different pros and cons, so you need to take the time to get familiar with the features...

Apr 26, 2004
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Integrating mobility into a Notes Infrastructure by BlackBerry
e-guide offers expert information that Lotus Notes administrators should consider when deploying mobile devices in the Lotus Notes environment and other issues that may arise from deployment. With the growing number of mobile device users within Lotus Notes Domino enterprises, it is becoming critical that employees have access to collaboration tools from their handhelds when they are on the...
Considerations for deploying mobile devices on Lotus Notes Domino by BlackBerry
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