Domino Interface

Building a Web application on HCL Domino can be challenging because there are so many ways of creating a Web application. There is just no design pattern to follow or best practices.  This is good for us who like to experiment, but bad for developers who just want to follow an official approach.  You can use XPages, classic Domino Web with Pages, computing fields and computed text with formula language or you can create apps using REST APIs with LotusScript, Java , DAS (please no) , view read entries or even DRAPI as Paul Withers has demonstrated on his blog,  https://paulswithers.github.io/blog/2024/08/15/xpages-web-1/ However, there is little talked about a very old technique that dates back to the beginnings when Domino became web enabled.  As part of my data visualization session demo at Engage 2025, I used this technique to generate the web pages and dashboards.   This technique allows you to separate the form, data and business logic and creates a sta...

Thank you everyone for attending my Engage 2025 session, Visualizing your Domino Data using Open Source Tools. Though I was up against some formidable sessions, I was surprised to have close to 30 attendees in my session. As promised, here is the PowerPoint presentation and sample databases and code. I would like to thank Kris and Tom for an incredible event and for selecting my session for this year's event. They did a wonderful job in continuing the tradition of making Engage a premium event.   After Engage 2025, I spent a day visiting different sites in The Hague.  The walk to the beach was a bit longer than I was told!  https://phoragroup.com/files/Visualize_Your_Domino_Data_with_Open_Source_Tools.pdf https://phoragroup.com/files/engagedemo.zip