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Most developers are familiar with composite application development for Lotus Notes 8 with IBM Lotus Domino Designer, IBM Lotus Component Designer or IBM Rational Application Development. But also, it is possible to create composite applications with IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory.

1. Create portlets using WebSphere Portlet Factory
2. Create a Web application bundle package using WebSphere Portlet Factory and deploy it in Lotus Notes 8.
3. Create a composite application in Lotus Notes 8 using these two portlets.

The article at link provides details of the above steps.

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The Lotus Sametime 8.0 telephony service includes voice and video chat functions and the click-to-call function. Along with these new features of voice and video chat and the click-to-call functions. By utilizing the extensible platform based on the Eclipse plug-in framework which Lotus Sametime 8.0 provides, it is possible to expand real-time communication with telephony and audio-visual capabilities. Lotus Sametime Telephony client toolkit can be used to develop new plug-in applications on top of Lotus Sametime Connect.

As an example,  a simple video chat application development which provides the following features is described in the article that could be found here.

• An application that displays as a rectangle area in Lotus Sametime Connect client UI
• Video chat caller, which can specify a recipient and start a video chat on the application UI
• Video chat recipient, which can automatically accept the incoming video chat request
• Embedding of both the local screen and the remote screen in the application UI

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Many of the new features in Lotus Notes V8 are the result of the move to the Eclipse/Lotus Expeditor environment. Lotus Notes V8 client encapsulates all the code that is Lotus Notes within the Eclipse environment. So, Lotus Notes V8 can be extended in the same way that Eclipse itself can be extended.

The flexibility of the Eclipse user interface has contributed to the Notes user interface. For example, the sidebar can display “always on” applications like the Activity Manager, a day-at-a-glance calendar, instant messaging, and the new RSS feed reader. Besides this, developers can build their own custom Eclipse plug-ins for the sidebar. For further information about Lotus Notes v8 client, refer to article at IBM Developerworks site from http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/notes8-new/.

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A new whitepaper is available on IBM developerWorks with information on developing themes and skins in Portal 6.
This white paper provides IBM® WebSphere® Portal developers an understanding of the new features and layouts available with the version 6.0.X themes and skins, addressing new functionality such as theme extensions and theme policies. It also covers how […]

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IBM developerWorks has published a tutorial about the OpenDocument Format for Office Applications

(ODF).

The OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) is an XML standard that lets you store and exchange office application documents, including word-processor, spreadsheet, and presentation files. Whether you try to perform special tasks on files saved from such applications or […]

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The Lotus Technical Information and Education Team have partnered with the IBM Redbooks team to create the  Lotus Domino Web Application Development Wiki - a new collaborative tool for developers. The Redbooks team held a residency to pre-populate the wiki with useful information and have now set it free to grow further on its own.
(via Lotus Technical Information […]

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The IBM alphaWorks are busy creating all sorts of Neato_Things(TM) again - this time it is an extension to their QEDWiki platform for capturing software architecture design decisions.
Capturing and sharing software architecture design rationale has always been particularly challenging in complex application domains such as enterprise computing. Because of the ongoing acceleration of technology innovation and […]

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Enabling Collaboration in WebSphere Portal Express V6 on i5/OS (draft Redpaper)
This Redpaper shows you how to integrate collaboration into WebSphere® Portal Express version 6 running on i5/OS . Specifically this document shows you how to integrate IBM Lotus Domino mail and applications, IBM Lotus Sametime, and Microsoft Exchange into a WebSphere Portal environment. Three different […]

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