Building a Composite Application for IBM Lotus Notes V8 (9)

Course 8: Compound ApplicationProgramAdd eclipse Components

Add the eclipse component to the Composite Application

To add an eclipse component to the component panel, follow these steps:

In Lotus Notes V8, open the NSF-based compound application customer interests.

Select actions-edit application to open the Composite Application editor.

Expand the component panel of Composite Application editor if necessary.

Right-click the component panel and choose add components-"add components from Update site ".

In the displayed dialog box, select remote update site and enter NRPC: // localhost/8025731000495e97/site. XML in the URL field, as shown in Figure 37.

Figure 37. Update site details dialog box after URL input

This is the copy ID of tc_us_8.nsf. It updates the site template based on Domino V8.

Tip: You can also open tc_us_8.nsf in the Lotus Notes V8 client and select actions-show URL. Click copy in the resulting dialog box to copy the URL to the clipboard. You can paste this URL into the Update site details dialog box.

Click OK. The "select components from an Update site" dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 38.

Figure 38. Select components from an Update site dialog box

Select the tag cloud component and click OK. 39. The Tag Cloud component is listed in the component panel.

Figure 39. The component panel contains the added Tag Cloud component

On the components panel, select the tag cloud component and drag it to the upper-right corner of the compound application. The plug-in installation dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 40.

Figure 40. Plug-in installation dialog box

Select the "install this plug-in" option and click OK. A progress dialog box shows the Agent installation progress. When the installation is complete, the restart dialog box appears.

When you are prompted to restart, click yes.

After restarting the Lotus Notes V8 client, open the customer interests compound application. This composite application contains the eclipse-based Tag Cloud component developed in Eclipse IDE, as shown in Figure 41.

Figure 41. The Composite Application in Lotus Notes V8 now contains the newly added Tag Cloud component

In this course, we added an eclipse-based component to the NSF-based Composite Application editor feature of the Lotus Notes V8 client.