Transformations: Smart Application Migration to XPages
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The document discusses Teamstudio's smart application migration to XPages, highlighting their tools for mobile access to IBM Notes applications and modernizing legacy applications. It includes information on Teamstudio's professional services, upcoming webinars, and features of the new XPages extension library, such as responsive design functionality and value picker controls. Additionally, it covers migration strategies, including transforming database and user profiles using Java Beans and faceted search techniques.
Transformations: Smart Application Migration to XPages
- 1. Transformations: Smart Application Migration to XPages Tweet about this event And mention us: @Teamstudio @TLCCLTD @zeromancer1972 Apr. 21, 2015
- 2. @Teamstudio teamstudio.com @TLCCLTD tlcc.com Courtney Carter Inbound Marketing Specialist Teamstudio
- 3. Who We Are • Teamstudio’s background is in creating tools for collaborative computing in mid-size and large enterprises, primarily for IBM Notes • Easy-to-use tools for developers and administrators • 1600+ active customers, 53 countries • Offices in US, UK, and Japan • Entered mobile space in 2010 with Unplugged: easy mobilization of Notes apps to Blackberry, Android and iOS
- 4. Teamstudio Unplugged • Your mobile Domino server: take your IBM Notes apps with you! • End-users access Notes applications from mobile devices whether online or offline • Leverages the powerful technology of XPages
- 5. Unplugged Templates • Continuity – Mobile offline access to BCM programs • OneView Approvals – Expense approvals; anywhere, anytime • CustomerView – lightweight CRM framework for field sales and field service teams • Contacts – customer information database • Activities – customer activity log • Media – mobile offline file storage and access
- 6. XControls • Set of Controls for IBM Domino XPages developers working on new XPages apps and on app modernization projects • Re-write of the Teamstudio Unplugged Controls project, but adds full support for PC browser-based user interfaces as well as mobile interfaces • Enables XPages developers to create controls that are responsive • Learn more: teamstudio.com/solutions/xfoundations
- 7. Teamstudio Services • Professional services for modernization, web enablement, project management, development, and administration o Modernization Services o Unplugged Developer Assistance Program o Application Upgrade Analysis o Application Complexity Analysis o Application Usage Auditing • http://www.teamstudio.com/solutions/services/
- 8. • Teamstudio Blog promotion: o Subscribe to Teamstudio’s blog before May 31, 2015 and you’ll be automatically entered to win an iPhone 6! • DNUG: Jun. 10-11, 2015 o Come see us in Dortmund, Germany
- 9. 1 #XPages Your Hosts Today: Howard Greenberg TLCC @TLCCLtd Transformations - Smart Application Migration to XPages Paul DellaNebbia TLCC @PaulDN
- 10. How can TLCC Help YOU! 2 • Private classes at your location or virtual •XPages Development •Support Existing Apps •Administration • Let us help you become an expert XPages developer! • Delivered via Notes • XPages • Development • Admin • User Self- Paced Courses Mentoring Instructor- Led Classes Application Development and Consulting Free Demo Courses!
- 11. Try a FREE XPages Course!!! 3 Introduction to XPages Development course • Three Hour self paced course • Has Demonstrations and Activities • Requires Domino Designer • Both an 8.5 and 9.0 version • Perfect for beginners! Register at www.tlcc.com/admin/tlccsite.nsf/pages/free+course Great Price It’s FREE!!!
- 12. Upcoming and Recorded Webinars 4 • May 14th App.Next - The Future of Domino App. Development • www.tlcc.com/xpages-webinar View Previous Webinars (use url above)
- 13. New Extension Library Release • New xe:mapValuePicker and xe:collectionValuePicker tags for the Value Picker Control – There are two new data providers for the Value Picker • New inPlaceForm Simple Action – allows for displaying or hiding an inPlaceForm control • New Responsive Web Design Functionality – There are three new controls to be used with the bootstrap theme. • Carousel Control • Dashboard Control • Navbar Control – New Application Layout configuration focused on a responsive design • Responsive Design Demonstration Application: ToDo.nsf • New xsp.properties “suppress” option for dataView control • New URL Parameters in the REST Calendar Service 5 Download the Extension Library at OpenNTF.org
- 14. Asking Questions – Q and A at the end 6 Use the Orange Arrow button to expand the GoToWebinar panel Then ask your questions in the Questions pane! We will answer your questions verbally at the end of the webinar
- 15. Your Presenter Today: 7 #XPages Oliver Busse We4IT @zeromancer1972
- 16. Transformations Smart Application Migration A presentation of Oliver Busse @ Engage.UG in March 2015 Broadcasted in the TLCC & Teamstudio Webinar April 21, 2015
- 17. Agenda •About me •Overview •Preamble •Migrate database and user profiles • Legacy profile documents vs. Java Beans • Value lists made available over the whole application •User and environment information • What can a user see and use? •Extending Fulltext search to a facetted search • Filtering your data with meta tags
- 18. Oliver Busse • „Bleeding Yellow“ since 2000 • Working for We4IT Group • OpenNTF Board Member • IBM Champion for ICS in 2015 • @zeromancer1972 • www.oliverbusse.com www.we4it.com
- 19. Overview •What‘s this? • Transforming & re-using commonly used legacy patterns in XPages • Don‘t fear Java • Avoid @Formulas in SSJS • Ideas for best practices •What‘s it not? • An XPages Introduction • A Java beginner‘s guide • A complete application migration strategy
- 20. Preamble •Why not to use SSJS „excessively“? • SSJS is interpreted at runtime • SSJS is compiled at runtime (every time you call it!) • Compiled SSJS is hard to debug while executed
- 21. 6#engageug Migrating database and user profiles
- 22. What we find in legacy apps: profile documents Disadvantages • You cannot see them without using tools • You can edit and create them only programmatically • Sometimes replication issues • Unwanted Caching ;-) Advantages • Quick access without using lookup views • Caching
- 23. What we missed in many cases DatabaseScript != Global Declarations Encapsuled, no access from outside (except Database Events)
- 24. Performance-Killer Numerous usage of those formulas slow down the app one of many...
- 25. Transformation Item1=Values1 Item2=Values2 Item3=Values3 ... NotesDocument Key1=ValueMap1 Key2=ValueMap2 Key3=ValueMap3 ... HashMap NSF-based, view lookup Memory-based, direct access
- 26. Ingredients •Transformation of profile documents to „standard“ documents 1. Create a corresponding lookup view 2. Optional: corresponding forms for maintenance 3. Create the Java Bean classes 4. Define those Bean classes in faces-config.xml
- 27. Preparation: Lookup Views •Key for Database Profiles = dbprofile •Key for User Profiles = Canonical User Name •Key for Value Lists = free but unique
- 28. Preparation: Java Beans • 3 Classes: • DatabaseProfileBean • AppConfigBean • UserProfileBean • The DatabaseProfileBean initializes the document if it doesn‘t exist • The UserProfileBean initializes the document when the user saves it for the first time
- 29. faces-config.xml <faces-config> <!-- Database Profile Bean --> <managed-bean> <managed-bean-name>dbprofile</managed-bean-name> <managed-bean-class>com.icsug.DatabaseProfileBean </managed-bean-class> <managed-bean-scope>application</managed-bean-scope> </managed-bean> <!-- User Profile Bean --> <managed-bean> <managed-bean-name>userprofile</managed-bean-name> <managed-bean-class>com.icsug.UserProfileBean </managed-bean-class> <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope> </managed-bean> <!-- Application Configuration --> <managed-bean> <managed-bean-name>application</managed-bean-name> <managed-bean-class>com.icsug.AppConfigBean </managed-bean-class> <managed-bean-scope>application</managed-bean-scope> </managed-bean> </faces-config>
- 30. Digression: Bean Scopes & Lifecycles •Request • Lives beginning with the request to creation of the response •View • Within a page until changing the page, even during partial refreshes •Session • Per user session •Application • During the life time of th application (after 30 minutes it is dropped by default)
- 31. DEMO
- 32. 17#engageug User and Environment Information
- 33. User and Environment Information Name variations Access Level ACL Options notes.ini variables Environment Bean
- 34. faces-config.xml: EnvironmentBean 19#engageug <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <faces-config> <!-- Environment Bean --> <managed-bean> <managed-bean-name>env</managed-bean-name> <managed-bean-class>com.icsug.EnvironmentBean </managed-bean-class> <managed-bean-scope>view</managed-bean-scope> </managed-bean> </faces-config>
- 36. Example: ACL Options The delete button is only visible if the user can delete documents
- 37. Even in themes! 22#engageug <theme extends="flatly" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="platform:/plugin/com.ibm.designer.domino.style kits/schema/stylekit.xsd"> <!-- display a submit type button only if user can create documents via ACL --> <control> <name>Button.Submit</name> <property type="boolean"> <name>rendered</name> <value>#{env.createDocuments}</value> </property> </control> </theme>
- 38. DEMO
- 39. 24#engageug Extending Fulltext-Search to a Facetted Search
- 40. Facetted Search „Faceted search, also called faceted navigation or faceted browsing, is a technique for accessing information organized according to a faceted classification system, allowing users to explore a collection of information by applying multiple filters.“ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_search
- 41. Facetted Search
- 43. Facetted Search with Domino? 1. Fulltext Search 2. Filtering result from extra meta data 1. Meta data search with facet selection 2. Fulltext Search in results
- 44. FacettedSearchBean (Session scoped) FacetsSearch Term FacettedSearch Bean DocumentCollection (ArrayList<SearchResultEntry>)
- 45. 30#engageug DEMO
- 46. Facetted Search: Outlook & Alternatives •Using OpenNTF API‘s Graph-DB functions •Using a 3rd party Graph-DB like Apache Solr 31#engageug
- 47. Want to get the DEMO? Grab it from my Bitbucket repo (also contains an NTF): https://bitbucket.org/zeromancer1972/icsug-2015-demo It uses the following plugins available on OpenNTF: XPages Extension Library (9.0.1.07+): http://extlib.openntf.org/ Bootstrap 4 Xpages: http://www.openntf.org/main.nsf/project.xsp?r=project/Bootstrap4XPages OpenNTF Domino API: http://www.openntf.org/main.nsf/project.xsp?r=project/OpenNTF%20Domino%20 API 32#engageug
- 49. Questions???? 8 Use the Orange Arrow button to expand the GoToWebinar panel Then ask your questions in the Questions panel! Remember, we will answer your questions verbally
- 50. #XPages @zeromancer1972 @TLCCLtd @Teamstudio @PaulDN Upcoming Events: MWLug User Group Meeting, Aug. 19-21, Atlanta Question and Answer Time! 9 Teamstudio Questions? contactus@teamstudio.com 978-712-0924 TLCC Questions? howardg@tlcc.com paul@tlcc.com 888-241-8522 or 561-953-0095 Howard GreenbergPaul Della-Nebbia Courtney CarterOliver Busse