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

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AD206IBM® Domino® XPages – Embrace, Extend, IntegratePadraic Edwards, Software Engineer, IBMNiklas 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



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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 Fixeshttp://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?product=ibm/Lotus/Lotus+Connections&release=4.0.0.0&platform=Linux&function=all

http://extlib.openntf.org/

http://ibmsbt.openntf.org/

http://openntf.org/p/xpages%20for%20connections

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




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