COMPOSITE APPLICATIONS - DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT


Generating portlets and deploying to Websphere Portal (for WebSphere Portal only)
Composite applications to be used by IBMR LotusR NotesR can be NSF-based composite applications or Portal hosted composite applications

NSF-based composite applications can be accessed from the local data folder of the Notes client or accessed from an NSF on a Lotus Domino server.

Composite applications hosted on a WebSphere Portal server can be also used by the Lotus Notes client but additional steps must be performed to generate and deploy rich client components as portlet .WAR files (Web modules) for WebSphere Portal.

An NSF component generator feature is supplied with the Composite Application Editor (CAE) feature to generate portlets from Notes and Eclipse components. This feature does the following:


In the portlet generation process, the Composite Application Editor works differently depending on whether you have an NSF based application or a Portal based application. When you create an application in an NSF you cannot deploy the components to Portal. What you need to do is the following
How this process occurs can be summarized as follows:
Note Notes 8.0, 8.0.x, and 8.5 clients will not work with just NCI unless they are configured with the "dontUseDAP" preference. Notes 8.0.0 through 8.5.0 clients that will be communicating with a Portal server that has NCI (as opposed to the retired "WebSphere Portal composite application support for Notes (SCI)" installed must add the following preference to their<notes_install_dir>/framework/rcp/plugin_customization.ini file:
For information about working with pre-Notes 8.5.1 clients see 'Installing the WebSphere Portal composite application support for Notes" at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/topic/com.ibm.help.domino.admin.doc/DOC/H_INSTALLING_THE_NOTES_8_SERVER_CLIENT_INSTALLER_2699_OVER.html.
For more complete information, refer to Composite Application Editor documentation and the Lotus Expeditor documentation.

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