How to tell when an Expeditor/Eclipse plugin is starting in Lotus Notes 8
Thu, Sep 30th 2010 12:18p Hunter Medney I had a customer who was concerned when certain plugins were starting in Notes 8, mainly to ensure non-critical plugins were not starting too soon and thus impacting startup time. The trace log in Lotus Notes 8 (Help – Support – View Trace) shows output from the Eclipse/Expeditor plugins in the platform. The trace log is the output of a JSR47 (java.util.logging) logger, and Expeditor/Notes tries to funnel all logging through the JSR47 logger. JSR47 logging is controlled through the fil [read] Keywords: expeditor
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Storing arbitrary credentials in WebSphere Application Server
Fri, Jun 25th 2010 12:00p Hunter Medney So you’re writing an application for WebSphere Application Server, and you need to call a remote system under fixed credentials. How can you securely store and access these credentials? WebSphere Portal has the Credential Vault for this purpose, but what about WebSphere Application Server? I knew about the J2C Authentication Data entries which have credentials for JDBC data sources, and figured I could use the same mechanism for arbitrary credentials. After a bit of searching, I fo [read] Keywords: ibm
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How to trigger plugin code to run after login in Notes 8 Standard
Thu, Apr 29th 2010 9:37a Hunter Medney Suppose you have a plugin in Notes 8 Standard that needs to perform some task on startup but only after the user has successfully logged-in to the Notes client, i.e. unlocked their ID file. Notes 8 Standard is built on Lotus Expeditor, and Lotus Expeditor has an encrypted store for storing credentials. The store must be “unlocked” before the credentials can be accessed. In the standalone Lotus Expeditor product, the credential store is unlocked through name and password, through [read] Keywords: expeditor
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Lotus Notes 8: troubleshooting provisioning
Fri, Feb 12th 2010 12:38p Hunter Medney Below are areas to look at when troubleshooting install/update/removal of Eclipse features and plugins via widgets. Check the rich client log, available via Help - Support - View Trace. Enable trace logging for the widgets and provisioning subsystems to find out what is happening. Look at the features and plugins that have been installed in the user’s install site: /workspace/applications
Check the platform.xml file to see which features are enabled. Only installed and enabled f [read] Keywords: ibm
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Providing a custom image to provisioning widgets in Lotus Notes 8
Mon, Feb 1st 2010 11:12p Hunter Medney Widgets provide a nice mechanism for deploying Eclipse features and plugins to Lotus Notes 8 Standard clients. These widgets can be created using a wizard provided in Notes 8.5.1 (below) or manually. Widgets are XML documents that describe dynamic contributions/extensions to the Notes 8 client. Part of the widget XML is an imageUrl attribute for an optional image for the widget. As the number of installed widgets grows, images can be useful to distinguish among them. While it may make se [read] Keywords: ibm
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Eclipse platform:/... URIs
Mon, Feb 1st 2010 10:33p Hunter Medney Finally found some sort of reference on those "platfrom:/" URIs used in Eclipse. Good stuff... http://lmap.blogspot.com/2008/03/platform-scheme-uri.html [read] Keywords: eclipse
Welcome!
Sat, Jan 16th 2010 5:41p Hunter Medney Welcome kind reader. This blog is part of a personal mission to start being more active outside IBM's walls. I'm with IBM Software Services for Lotus (ISSL) specializing in application development around Lotus products. My specialty areas are: Eclipse/Expeditor/Notes 8 plugin developmentComposite applicationsLiveTextWidgetsLiveText, Widget, Plugin deploymentXPages I started my IBM career as a hard core Notes developer, then moved into J2EE and Portal and now specialize in Eclipse deve [read] Keywords: expeditor
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