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The Tech Connection
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March 2013
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
IBM Connections 4.5 available March 29th! Quickr customers have a 1:1 entitlement for IBM Connections 4.5 with Content Manager. Read more.
Davalen CTO, David Wilkerson was awarded the Dr. Jim H Adair Award for Instructor Excellence at IBM Connect 2013. Please join us in congratulating David! |
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Greetings!
We are in the thick of conference season where enthusiasm is high and projects are rolling!
What I especially love about conference season is it pushes us to review our recent projects and take a look at our best practice tips. Based on this review Adam Kewley, our Web Experience Factory technical lead, has crafted an incredibly resourceful article, "Tips and tricks for writing your own Java-based Builders." In addition to Adam's article, Len Barker has been participating in the Notes 9 beta and has provided instructions for "Setting up the IBM Notes Browser Plugin". I hope you find these technical articles helpful.
We are also proud to announce a special addition to the technical team. Davalen is excited to announce the addition of David Wade to our team of outstanding WebSphere Portal Developers.
These and several more special announcement can be found through our blog so make sure and take a look.
Enjoy conference season and as always, don't be shy - share and reply!
- Ruth
Ruth O'Keefe
ROK@davalen.com
800.827.8451 ext 105 |
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Tips and tricks for writing your own Java-based Builders
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There are many benefits to creating your own custom builders. Be it setting standards, code reuse, or simply making it easier for other developers to implement your functionality across multiple projects. Writing builders and mastering the creation of them however can be tricky. While IBM provides a lot of documentation and samples, it's nearly impossible to cover all the areas of builder creation. In this article, we'll try to address a couple of these lesser-known areas, and provide tips on how to better understand builder creation. This article assumes a basic understanding of the creation of Java-based builders in Web Experience Factory.
We'll start by generalizing builders into three major areas of interest. The first is the UI itself. The UI mainly consists of the BuilderDefinition (bdef), and the optional Coordinator class. The second area is code Generation. The Regen class generates code and webapp artifacts for the builder. The final area is composed of the Helper class, and other webApp artifacts which assist in the runtime execution of the builder... more |
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 | | Len Barker |
I installed and configured the IBM Notes Browser Plugin on a machine that already had Lotus Notes installed and on a machine with no instance of Lotus Notes. A couple of the points of interest before I share the screen shots:
- In the beta version of the plugin at least, the plugin can be installed from standalone 143MB executable or by selecting the Notes Browser Plugin option when installing the full Notes 9.0 client
- If Notes is already installed on your workstation, the standalone executable will not work. You will get an error about there being a previous version of Notes installed even if you have already upgraded the Notes client to 9.0. To install the Notes browser plugin in this situation, use the full Notes client installation executable and modify the installation by choosing the Notes browser plugin option... more
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 | | David Wade |
Davalen is excited to announce the addition of David Wade to our team of outstanding WebSphere Portal Developers.
David is a Portal / Web Experience Factory Consultant with expertise as a developer, team lead, and architect. Over the past few years, David was an employee of IBM as a Senior Specialist and as the Portlet Factory Lead for GBS and recently an independent consultant. He has worked on major Portal projects across the United States. David's Portal / Portlet Factory background began as a consultant at a manufacturing company in SC. After IBM purchased Portlet Factory from Bowstreet in 2005, he developed and implemented a complete production line system using Portlet Factory on WebSphere Portal connecting with the iSeries. Prior to his Portal experience David spent 20+ years as an iSeries Applications consultant delivering solutions in the manufacturing, education, and media industries...
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