Lotus Domino/Notes toolkits Overview (1)

1 Overview

1.1 why do you need to know about Lotus toolkits?

In the process of developing enterprise applications using Domino/Notes, the problem that Domino should be combined with other business systems is constantly encountered. Domino is a unique and closed system. It is very difficult to use it as an application integration platform for the entire enterprise. A more general and open technology should be used to build this platform.
Domino/Notes, as a typical component system, has the characteristics and advantages in Document Information Processing and collaborative work. In addition, the company has accumulated a lot on this platform. Therefore, how to organically integrate Domino/Notes applications on an open platform is an important issue to be solved.
To this end, we need to know the ways to obtain data and objects in the Domino/Notes system from the outside, and what interfaces and tools Lotus provides. These tools are Lotus toolkits.
1.2 toolkits

Based on the Lotus product series, Lotus provides tool kits for the following products:

• Notes/Domino
• Sametime
• QuickPlace
• Discovery Server
• Other

Among them, there are many sdks for notes/Domino and Sametime, including C, C ++, and Java, and few of other products. From this perspective, we can also see that document data processing and collaboration are the core values of Lotus products. Among them, the Notes/Domino toolkit includes:

• Lotus c api Toolkit
• Lotus C ++ API Toolkit
• Lotus Domino toolkit for Java/CORBA
• Lotus and notes toolkit for com
• Lotus Domino driver for JDBC (lddj for short)
• Notessql
• Lotus XML Toolkit (dxl for short)
• Custom tag converion kit (DCT)
• LotusScript extensions Toolkit (LSX for short)

1.3 What is the content of this article?

This article focuses on some of the notes/Domino tool kits:

• What kind of work can be used to accomplish and what kind of work cannot be done
• Working mechanism
• How to configure and use
• Compare and analyze how to choose to use these toolkit.

Lotus Domino/Notes toolkits Overview (1)
Overview of Lotus Domino/Notes toolkits (2) c API
Lotus Domino/Notes toolkits Summary (iii) c ++ API
Lotus Domino/Notes toolkits Overview (4) Java
Lotus Domino/Notes toolkits Summary (5) lddj
Lotus Domino/Notes toolkits Summary (6) Others
Lotus Domino/Notes toolkits Summary (7) Analysis and Comparison
Overview of Lotus Domino/Notes toolkits (8) Analysis and Comparison
Lotus Domino/Notes toolkits Summary (9)