Xpages Portable Command Guide: A Compact Resource to Xpages Application Development and the Xsp Language

A Practical Primer for XPages Application Development, Debugging, and Performance

Using XPages, Lotus® Notes® and Domino® developers can quickly create state-of-the-art web, mobile, and Notes client business applications using standard technologies like HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and XML. Now, there’s a perfect portable XPages quick reference for every working developer. Straight from the experts at IBM®, XPages Portable Command Guide offers fast access to working code, tested solutions, expert tips, and example-driven best practices. Drawing on their unsurpassed experience as IBM XPages lead developers and customer consultants, the authors explore many lesser known facets of the XPages runtime, illuminating these capabilities with dozens of examples that solve specific XPages development problems. Using their easy-to-adapt code examples, you can develop XPages solutions with outstanding performance, scalability, flexibility, efficiency, reliability, and value.

Covers lots of commands and parameters related to

• XPages behavior modification through xsp.properties
• Notes/Domino configuration files
• XSP Command Manager and OSGi Console
• The XSP Client-Side JavaScript Object
• Server Side JavaScript scripting
• Server Side JavaScript debugging via global functions, simple programming constructs, and logging
• Instantly access all XPages commands: Use this book as your quick offline solutions resource
• Logical how-to topic groupings provide one-stop research
• Compact size makes it easy to carry with you—wherever you go
• “Create Your Own Journal” section with blank, lined pages makes it easy to personalize this book for your needs
• “What Do You Want to Do?” chart inside the front cover helps you quickly find specific tasks

Designed for all Lotus and Domino developers with at least some XPages experience, XPages Portable Command Guide is the ideal companion and follow-up to Mastering XPages from IBM Press, the world’s #1 book on XPages technology.

Martin Donnelly, software architect and tech lead for IBM’s XPages runtime team, has worked on all four XPages releases.

Maire Kehoe, lead developer on IBM’s XPages team, worked on Lotus Component Designer from 2004 to 2007, and moved to IBM Lotus Domino to help develop the Domino Server’s XPages runtime.

Tony McGuckin, senior software engineer for the XPages core runtime team, also researches and develops next generation application development tools, and consults on XPages with IBM customers.

Dan O’Connor, Team Lead for IBM Lotus Domino Designer, has worked on Domino Designer since release 8.5.0. He previously worked on the XFaces tooling for Lotus Component Designer and on JSF tooling for Rational® Application Developer.