Domino as an Update Site

There’s a great new feature that is included in Notes/Domino 8 that I don’t think is getting enough press.  It’s a very useful feature that all Domino administrators and developers should be looking at to assist in your Notes8 rollouts.  What is this wonderful new feature that will save you lots of time and heartache?

Domino as an Update Site!

Domino as an Update Site???  What is that?  Why should I be looking at it?  Why is it important to my Notes8 rollouts, you ask?  Read on!

As we all know by now, the Notes 8 client is built on an Eclipse framework.  One of the great things this provides us is the ability to do those wonderful side shelf and composite applications.  You saw them at Lotusphere - and you saw all the cool little things you can put out there to help make end-users a little bit more productive.  And, with the introduction of widgets in 8.01, we made it so that end-users can put their own productivity tools on their desktops without any administrative or development intervention.  Pretty cool, huh?!

So let’s take this one step further.  Side shelf and composite applications can provide a lot of value in an organization.  I have customers who are creating applications to provide functions such as an employee yellow pages, a skills look-up application and even a way to hook into CRM applications.  These are all great uses!.................... read more.