IBM Connect AD206 IBM Domino XPages – Embrace, Extend, Integrate

AD206
IBM® Domino® XPages –
Embrace, Extend, Integrate
Padraic Edwards, Software Engineer, IBM
Niklas Heidloff, Software Architect, IBM

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Agenda

 Introduction

 Access to REST APIs from XPages

 Extensions to IBM Connections via iWidgets

 Extensions to IBM Connections via OpenSocial

 Extensions to IBM Notes® via OpenSocial

 Q&A


Embrace


Extend


Integrate


Social Enabling Technologies

 Definition: Custom social applications
─ Applications that provide social and collaborative functionality and/or
─ Applications that leverage existing social software

 Social software as well as other cloud based and on-premises services provide
REST APIs
─ Custom social applications that leverage social software need to consume REST APIs

 Interoperability through open standards

HTML5 ARIA SAML


XPages Social Enabler and IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK

 Infrastructure to easily inovke REST APIs
─ XPages social enabler
─ IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK

 Benefits
─ Isolates complexity related to authentication mechanisms
─ Makes it easy to switch between multiple environments
─ Provides easy to use objects with many code examples


IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK

 Targets the broader range of developers
─ Focus on web technologies: HTML, JavaScript and CSS
─ Also supports Java™ developers, and more over time

 Simplifies access to …
─ IBM Connections
─ IBM SmartCloud™ for Social Business
─ Other REST services

 Provides new APIs and services designed to help developers build unified user
experiences and consistent extensibility independent of ...
─ Product,
─ Delivery model (cloud, on-premises) and
─ Client type (desktop client, browser, mobile)


New IBM Social Business Toolkit – Components

 SDK
─ Available as open source

 Development community
─ Wiki, Q&A, etc.

 Goal: IBM Collaboration QuickStart Social Business
─ On IBM SmartCloud
─ As downloadable image

 Playground
─ Lets developers experiment the social functionality using a web based application
─ Goal: Hosted on IBM Greenhouse


XPages Social Enabler

 The social enabler is an infrastructure to invoke REST APIs

 Available on OpenNTF with samples to connect to …
─ IBM Connections, IBM SmartCloud for Social Business, etc.


XPages Social Enabler and IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK

 IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK
─ For web and Java (including XPages) developers
─ Advantages:
– Convenience Java APIs to access IBM Connections and IBM SmartCloud
– OAuth 2
– Anonymous users

 XPages social enabler
─ For XPages developers
─ Advantages:
– Persistent web security store
– Ltpa
– XPages controls (e.g. data sources, user bean)

 Goal: Integrate SDK in future XPages extension library release


Demo
 Create activity stream entries in communities from XPages
─ Via Social Business Toolkit SDK


Scenario: Publish to other users' activity streams

 Requires the definition of a trusted “user”
 Requires usage of basic authentication


Demo
 Create bookmarks in IBM Connections from XPages
─ Via XPages social enabler


Extensions to IBM Connections via iWidgets

 Home pages, communities and profiles can be extended via iWidgets

 Designer allows definition of iWidgets for XPages
─ Goal: Improvements for sizing and full page mode


OpenNTF Projects

 Generic NSF View Widget for IBM Connections
by Rene Winkelmeyer

 IFrame-able View Controls
by Jesse Gallagher

 Notes mail and calendar for IBM Connections 3
by David Marko and Stanislav Marszalek

 Attendance Widget for IBM Connections
by NithyaPriya Rajkumar and Abeish Babu


Extensions to IBM Connections via OpenSocial

 Definition OpenSocial (from opensocial.org):
─ “OpenSocial is a set of APIs for building social applications that run on the web. OpenSocial's
goal is to make more apps available to more users, by providing a common API that can be used
in many different contexts. Developers can create applications, using standard JavaScript and
HTML, that run on social websites that have implemented the OpenSocial APIs. These websites,
known as OpenSocial containers, allow developers to access their social information.”

 Implementations
─ IBM Connections 4 supports OpenSocial 2.0
─ Goal: IBM Notes 9 and IBM iNotes 9 to support OpenSocial
─ Open source reference implementation: Apache Shindig
─ Several other OpenSocial containers


Responsibilities of OpenSocial Containers

 Provide OpenSocial APIs
─ Activity Stream API
─ People API
─ Microblogging API

 Allow extensibility via actions and selections
─ Example: Actions in the IBM Connections share box

 Support OpenSocial gadgets and embedded experiences


Embedded Experiences and OpenSocial Gadgets

 Embedded experiences allow users to open entries from activity streams to
display and interact with them in context

 Support for embedded experiences:
─ IBM Connections 4 CR2 personal and community activity streams
─ IBM Connections 4 CR2 mail
─ Goal: IBM Notes 9 and IBM iNotes 9

 Embedded experiences contain either ...
─ Arbitrary web pages or
─ OpenSocial gadgets


Web Pages vs OpenSocial Gadgets in Embedded Experiences

 Web pages
─ URLs to web pages rendered in iframes
─ Context is passed via URL parameters
─ SSO and basic authentication
─ Access to IBM Connections via IBM Connections REST API

 OpenSocial gadgets
─ XML descriptors
─ Context is passed via OpenSocial container
─ OAuth and SSO (SSO only in IBM Connections 4, not IBM Notes 9)
─ OAuth to third party services is handled by the container
─ Access to IBM Connections via IBM Connections REST API (superset of OpenSocial APIs)
─ Contributions of actions in menus and toolbars
─ Two types (both using iframes)
– URL content

– HTML content


Send Mail Action

 Goal for IBM Notes and Domino 9: Provide new send mail action

 Drag & drop simple action to facilitate sending basic mail

 Ability to send both plain text and html parts

 Deliver option support

 Embedded experience support
─ Encapsulates required JSON payload for embedded experiences
─ Options for web pages or OpenSocial gadgets
─ Name/value UI to easily add gadget context properties


Demo

 Send mails with embedded experiences rendering XPages web pages in IBM
Connections mail, IBM Notes and IBM iNotes


Contributions of Actions

 Goal: Allow contributions of actions in future versions of IBM Notes and IBM
iNotes

 Makes use of the OpenSocial container services API which has the following
services
– gadgets.selection: to participate in the container’s selection eventing
– gadgets.actions: to contribute buttons and menu items to the container’s UI
– gadgets.views: to open and/or close gadgets and URL sites within the container which
it is rendered

 Provides contributions to IBM Notes and IBM iNotes existing pop up menus and
toolbars with the exact same code in your gadget


Demo

 OpenSocial gadget implemented via HTML and XPages contributing actions to
IBM Notes and IBM iNotes


Goals for future IBM Notes and Domino Releases

 Leverage existing component model for iWidgets and composite application
components

 Add new options to generate OpenSocial gadgets for XPages

 Take an existing XPages application and use type URL content option for
gadgets

 Build an XPages application from scratch for your gadget and use type HTML
content option for a gadget

 Allow the runtime to dynamically create gadgets from component data

 Possible .gadget.xml extension similar to iWidget extension


References
 XPages Social Enabler:
http://extlib.openntf.org

 IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK:
http://ibmsbt.openntf.org

 OpenNTF Project XPages for Connections:
http://openntf.org/p/xpages%20for%20connections

 IBM Connections Fixes
http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?
product=ibm/Lotus/Lotus+Connections&release=4.0.0.0&platform=Linu
x&function=all

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