Proper Connections Development for Proper Domino Developers

SHOW303: Proper
Connections Development
for Proper Domino
Developers
Matt White, London Developer Co-op
Mark Myers, London Developer Co-op

© 2014 IBM Corporation

About Us
 Matt White
– A Member of the London Developer Co-op
(londc.com) A group of UK based developers
– Domino web developer since 1996
– XPages developer since 2008
– Also…
• Owner at http://xpages101.net
• Lead Developer for Elguji Software
- IdeaJam
- IQJam

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About Us
 Mark Myers
– A Member of the London Developer Co-op
(londc.com) A group of UK based developers
– Developer from a support background
– 12+ years on Domino, 15+ years in IT
– Speaker at 4x Lotuspheres, 4x UKLUGs, 1x
ILUG, 1x BLUG

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Software we’re using
 IBM Domino® 9.0.1
 IBM Domino® Designer 9.0.1
 IBM Websphere® Application Server 8.0
 IBM DB2® 10.1
 MyEclipse® 2014 Blue Edition

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Aim of this session
 Surface an XPages application inside Connections
 We’re assuming that you are Domino developers and that you know nothing about
developing applications for Connections
 We’re going to show you three different ways to do this
 This is from real world experience

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What is Connections?
 Not a single application server
 Think a series of WAS applications, a database server and various add-ons.
 It is not as simple as Domino development
 But, it is not difficult to do. You just need to know the moving parts.
 That’s what we’re going to show you today.

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Our Development Environment
 IBM Domino 9.0.1 running:
– HTTP – obviously as we are running XPages apps
– LDAP – our Domino server handles all authentication for IBM Connections
– Mail etc – all the usual add on tasks in Domino
 IBM Domino Designer 9.0.1
 Websphere Application Server
– Free download for developers of WAS 8.0 from: http://ibm.co/1dNp4Uw
• We use 8.0 vs 8.5 as Connections 4.0 & 4.5 only runs on 8.0
– You’ll also need to get the IBM Installation Manager v1.6.2
 MyEclipse Blue Edition
– http://www.myeclipseide.com/blue/
 Connections 4.5
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Our Connections Development Environment
- Connections
 Connections development is far simpler than connections installation and administration
 Minimum of a Windows server with 8Gig of Ram and 30+ gig for a Empty installation
 Installations files 14+ gig
 https://bitly.com/18Ub03F (1115 slides not including the Domino installation for LDAP)
 You CAN get it all working on one box, but it will be slow (fine for development but not really
suitable for users)
 You can not use a WAS server set up for development as your connections box, all the
security needs to be turned on.
 You will need a full day to do this!!
 Connections settles in to about 10Gig of memory if left alone, so even on an 8Gig box you
will need to reboot every so often.
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Our Connections Development Environment
 Installing Connections 4.5 Crib sheet
– Install Domino and Enable LDAP (or use an existing one)
– Install db2 10.1 + Fixes
– Install WAS 8.0.0.5 + Fixes
– Create Connections DBs (with wizard)
– Install TDI
– Avoid Cognos ( you will rarely need it for development and it is optional )
– Link Domino LDAP with Connections ProfileDB with TDI (using wizard)
– Install Connections*
– Make a mental note to ask your admin to do it next time

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*Discover at this point that you have
misconfigured some minor detail wrong (such
as the deployment profile) and spend hours
figuring out why and where

The Domino Application
 Simple Approvals application
 Three forms
 Workflow around document status changes send update emails

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What we’re going to show
 Three different ways of surfacing the application in Connections:
 1) Simple iWidget
 2) Static HTML / JavaScript which integrates with an API
 3) WAS Application which integrates with an API
 Then as a bonus we’ll add some extra functionality
– Using the Social Business Toolkit we’ll post from the Domino application into other
Connections tools

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Creating the iWidget
 Very little to do, we already have a responsive web design
 Bootstrap 3.0 will handle the scaling of the web page
 We just need to configure the iWidget and deploy it

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Creating the iWidget
 We need to present it to Connections as a Open Social widget
 The easiest way of doing this is with a simple domino page which we will call “approvals.xml”

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Installing into Connections
 You will need Connections admin rights.
 When you log on to connections, click on the
“Administration” Link, on the left side bar under
“my Page”

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Installing it into Connections
 You can Add/Enable/Disable Widgets
from here
 Click “Add another widget”

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 First choose “Open Social Gadget”
 Then “Trusted”
– Select “SSO” if you are logging
on with your domino credentials
and your admin has set SSO
up, this will enable your domino
security to work seamlessly in a
the widget

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 Fill in other details (only Title and
Address are Mandatory)
 Then Save and Enable the widget

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 Finally

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Creating API – Server Settings
 We need to enable the PUT and DELETE methods in
our website document on the Domino server
 Discuss this with your friendly admin
– If not allowed, then process PUT and DELETE
using POST and an additional HTTP Header to
describe the actual method being used
• Ideally avoid this approach as it is non standard
for the rest of the world

We need to create an API
 The second and third demos require an API so let’s quickly create one
 The API will be a REST JSON service which allows us to read and write data programatically
 It’s a simple process, but there a couple of gotchas

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Creating API – Server Settings
 We want to allow cross domain Ajax requests as
well
 From the website document, create a new website
rule
 Set the following fields:
– Type of Rule: HTTP Response Headers
– Incoming URL pattern: */api.xsp*
– Expires Header: Add Header if application did
not
– Custom Headers
• Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
• Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin, XRequested-With, Content-Type, Accept
 Restrict which domains can do this with the
Access-Control-Allow-Origin setting
 Restart HTTP on your server

Creating API – Java Class
 Now we can create the code in Domino Designer
 First we’ll create a new Java Class called ApprovalsService

 Now add java code, first the imports:

 Add the renderService method

 We’re going to support four methods using three functions:
– GET – renderServiceJSONGet
– POST – renderServiceJSONUpdate
– PUT – renderServiceJSONUpdate
– DELETE – renderServiceJSONDelete
 URL Format is:
– …/mydb.nsf/api.xsp/[UNID]

Creating API – GET Method
 The GET method returns JSON of views or a single document

Creating API – POST / PUT Method
 JSON is sent to our service and based upon the method used to send it, we decide whether
to update an existing document or create a new document
– POST will try to update an existing document
– PUT will insert a new document
 We use HTTP response codes to indicate success or any errors
– So 200 == Success
– 404 == document not found
– Etc.
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes
 We’ll see how to call the service later on

Creating API – POST / PUT Method

Creating API – DELETE Method
 A simple DELETE request is sent to our service and we can decide what to do with the
document.
– We don’t have to delete the document, we can simply move it out of live views
 Again we use response codes to indicate success or failure

Creating API – DELETE Method

Creating API – API XPage
 Now we create a new XPage called “api”

Creating API – API XPage
 Make sure the XPage rendered property is set to false
 Then in the afterRenderResponse event call the renderService method in our Java class

Testing the API
 We use a Chrome plugin called “Dev HTTP Client”
– Free
– Download from Chrome Web Store
 We need to control the URL, the METHOD, the HTTP HEADERS
 We’re going to test
– Getting allrequests
– Getting myrequests
– Reading a document
– Updating a document
– Creating a document
– Deleting a document

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Testing the API - allrequests

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Testing the API - myrequests

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Testing the API – Read Document

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Testing the API – Update Document

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Testing the API – Creating a new document

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Testing the API – Deleting a document

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Testing the API - Errors
 In this case we are trying to read a document which doesn’t exist so we get an Error 404

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Static HTML App
 Now that we have an API, any number of external applications can access our original
XPages application
 This is not limited to Connections of course
– Think Mobile!
 We’re going to create a static HTML and JavaScript application which makes use of the API
and AJAX to perform some basic functions
 The benefit of this is that we can build in error handling
– If the Domino server is down then we can display a useful error page for example
 We might want to pull data from several different places
 The iWidget may be too basic

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Development Process
 This is very simple
– We’re going to use a text editor!
 We’ll also use some frameworks to make things nice and simple
– jQuery 2.0.3
• Will handle our Ajax requests etc
– Bootstrap 3
• Will be used for our UI
– Font Awesome
• Useful for general icons, in this case a spinner
 Merge all the files into a folder in the following structure
– Root
• CSS
• Font
• JS
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Static HTML Application
 We’ll create a single HTML page called index.html

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 Then we’ll create a single JavaScript document, site.js
 The URL will obviously need to be changed to match your environment

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 Once you have a working static HTML application, we’re going to want to deploy it to
Websphere Application Server (WAS)
 We recommend using MyEclipse Blue for this rather than Rational Application Developer
– It’s cheaper
– It’s smaller and faster
– It’s much simpler
 We need to create two different projects, one which will contain the code (war file) and one
which will handle hold and deploy the war file to WAS (ear file)

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What are WAR and EAR files
 A .War file (Web application ARchive) is a file used to distribute a collection of JavaServer
Pages, Java Servlets, Java classes, XML files, tag libraries, static Web pages (HTML and
related files) and other resources that together constitute a Web application.
 An .Ear (Enterprise ARchive) is Basically a normal War file wrapped in a configuration
wrapper.
 The Configuration wrapper of the Ear file contains features that while are very useful and
powerful for Websphere applications (adding JDBC connections on install etc etc) are
dangerous on connections server remember you are on a shared server and you can not
make any assumptions as to what is happening
– After working with multiple Connections administrators, the general opinion is to
document the features you require and ask your administrators to manually add them
rather than use the Ear file

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Create EAR Project
 In MyEclipse, select File -> New -> Enterprise Application Project

 Populate the dialog:
– Enter Project Name
– Make sure Target Runtime is set to
Websphere 8.0
 Click Next

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Create EAR Project
 In the next page of the wizard make sure to check “Generate application.xml deployment
descriptor”
 Then click Finish
 We end up with an empty project which we can
ignore for the moment

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Create Web Project
 Still in MyEclipse, create a new Web Project:
 In the dialog enter the Project Name
 Make sure that you choose to “Add project
to an EAR” and select the EAR project
we just created
 Click Next

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Create Web Project
 Take the defaults on the next page of the dialog
 Then click Next
 In the final dialog window make sure that the
“Generate web.xml deployment descriptor” is
checked
 Click Finish

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You have seen most of this before
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Root of Web
site

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Import HTML into Web Project
 In the WebRoot folder of the Web Project we just created, now import the HTML, JavaScript
and CSS files we created into the project:
 Right click on the WebRoot folder and choose “Import”

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Create approvals.xml file
 In the same way that we created an XML for the deployment of the Domino widget, we need
to create a similar XML file for this project
 Create a new XML file in the WebRoot folder called approvals.xml

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Create approvals.xml file
 Insert the following XML and save the file
 Obviously adjust the href property to match your environment

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Export EAR
 Now that we have our (very simple) web project we want to get it deployed to our test WAS
installation to make sure it works
 So we need to export an EAR file
 Right click on the EAR project and choose Export
 Choose “EAR File” from the list
 Click Next

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Export EAR
 In the dialog choose the destination for the EAR file
 Make sure to choose “Optimize for a specific server runtime” and choose Websphere 8.0”
from the list
 Click Finish

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Test Install WAS Application
 We want to make sure that the WAS
application works OK
 So open your browser
 Now we want to open the WAS Admin
Console
 Choose “New Application” from the
Applications menu

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Install WAS Application
 We now go through a 5 stage wizard to install the application
 First we upload the EAR file we just created
 Then click Next

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 Because this is the simplest possible deployment we can just take the defaults for the next
wizard pages
 Choose Fast Path
 Click Next

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 Take the default options and click Next

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 Take the default options and click next

 And again for Step 3

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 Take the defaults for steps 4 and 5 as well
 Finally click Finish

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 The next screen contains the install details with the final option to save the changes to the
server
 Click “Save”
 Now go to the Enterprise Applications list and
choose to start the application we just installed:

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Test the WAS Application
 Finally we can actually test the WAS application
 The URL for the application will be the same server name as your WAS Admin console but
port 9080 (if you’ve setup with the defaults)
 The application is called Connect14 and we want to open index.html
 So in my case http://mattwhite2c8a:9080/Connect14/index.html

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Deploy the WAS Application to Connections
 Now we can deploy the app to
Connections
 This is basically the same as the
deployment to Websphere that you
have just done for testing but with a few
subtle but important differences
 A Connections instance already has
multiple applications and is nearly
always spread over multiple
servers/clusters to spread the load, you
must be careful your application does
not disturb this balance.

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 To find out which applications are running on
which servers
– Select “Websphere application servers”
from the “Servers” left hand menu
– Select the server you want to check from
the list presented

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 Select “Installed applications”

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 You can now see all the applications running on the server and their startup order

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 Once you have picked a suitable server (I prefer “InfraCluster” on my development
boxes as lots of small applications which are similar to most of the ones I develop)
– Install the application as you have done previously (using “Fast Path”)
– Select the server you want to deploy to, click the checkbox for your application
and click “Apply”

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 You will see that the server name has now been updated
 Continue on with the rest of the “fast track” as you have done previously

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 A gotcha when deploying to
multi-server environments is
to remember which ports the
chosen server uses.
 Return to the Application
server config for your chosen
server, and click on “Ports”

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 If you are using the SSL port,
remember you will most likely be
using a self certificate on your
development box (these are
generated for you during the
profile creation section of the
connections installation)
The normal HTTP port (80)
The normal HTTPS port (443)

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 The environment just shown is a default “medium” environment that is configured when
Connections is installed
– This is commonly considered the best environment for development as it simulates
a production environment but still works on a smaller local machine.
– You may be tempted to select the “small” installation option but it makes for a very
slow restart time for any application/server.
 The missing element in what we are showing you verses a production Websphere
/Connections installation is the IBM High Availability HTTP server on the front end, this
is why we are putting port on the front of everything.
– It is invaluable for productions installations but unnecessary for development as it
adds an extra layer to deployments (you have to sync web modules between it and
Websphere when you deploy a new application) as well as taking up extra
resources.

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 On a production server the application location decision will be taken by your
administrator, but you can provide help and advice
– It is more important to provide suspected load per user than you are used to for
Domino, include as much info as you can include processor and disk
requirements
 On your development environment, you can cripple performance if you overload the
wrong server node which can lead to:
– Wasted time as you try to determine performance bottle necks
– Incorrect load requirements.
– Looking in the wrong logs for debugging (believe me it happens)
 If you are running a large application you may not want to share a cluster/server at all
and may need a dedicated server/cluster.
 If this happens on live you app may be incorrectly blamed for a system wide
slowdown
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 Here it is side by side with the Domino one

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Native WAS Application
which integrates with an
API

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Native WAS Application which integrates with an API
 When you want to go beyond basic Connections integration or when you want to write a full
application on the connections platform you WILL end up writing a Websphere Application
Server Native App
– Native access to relation databases
– Strongly embedded Widgets i.e. homepage
– Strategic
 We have built in features in Domino as it is an app development platform,
– WAS is an Enterprise App server, not a development platform
– Connections is Social Enterprise Software, not a development platform
 Native Websphere apps have a great deal of power and although security can be tightly
controlled it is not as simple to implement as Domino
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 For this example we are going to use a native application to pull from the Approvals Domino
database, and post it to the Connections stream
– We will do this on a schedule just as we would do with Agent Manager.

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Integrating WAS into your IDE
 With Native applications you will first want to build and test them locally on Websphere
– Far faster turn around
– Live console
– Your breakages don’t impact other people.
– Logs are much larger on a connections box
 This can be done for Connections development unless:
– You are after the Connections backend databases and your administrator has restricted
access to them
• Administrators can often be persuaded to grant this access on dev boxes
– You are embedding widgets directly into customized Connections pages
• the security overrides needed are often more bother than they are worth

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 To add the Websphere server to your
environment, in your IDE show the
“Servers” View

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 Right Click and Select “Configure Server
Connector”

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 Navigate to Websphere 8.0
 Select the Websphere Home directory
– This will be the “AppServer” directory in
where ever you installed Websphere
too e.g.
“D:IBMWebsphereAppServer”*

*This is the Websphere data
directory so should not be installed
on a system drive. Also avoid spaces
in directories (WAS installer defaults
to “C:Program files”)
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 Select “Load Profiles” to show the
profiles on the server, think of
profiles the same way as Domino
partitions.
 Profiles each have their own HTTP
port and admin port
– the HTTP port will not default to
port 80

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 You now have an entry in the server list
for each profile,
– You can Start/Stop and deploy your
applications to this profile directly
within the IDE

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 You can also see the live console (SystemOut.log)
– this is stored in the IBMWebsphereAppServerprofiles<ProfileName>logsserver1
directory

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 Our native app will consist of the following actions
 Getting Environment variables (for service connections)
 Fetching our REST data (from Domino)
 Posting it to the Connections Activity Stream
 Schedule these updates (like Agent Manager)

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 WARNING: Teacher Moment
 The will ALLWAYS be a better Way in Java, either a new tool or something you
don’t know about.
 Our examples use the most exposed fashion way we can thing of, so you can see
what's going on
 In real life you will use the best tools to make your job simpler.
 Up till now IBM will have provided you with most of the tools you need
 With J2EE unless you pick a full featured framework eg. SPRING
(http://spring.io/) , Vaadin (https://vaadin.com/home) you will have to pick your
own ‘best of breed’ tools.

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Native WAS Application - Starting
 First Build a new Ear and Web Project as per the previous Example

Note: We will be applying Jar libraries
manually, in this example, in real life you would
want to be using maven
(http://maven.apache.org/)

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Native WAS Application - Getting environment variables

 In Domino we take getCurrentDatabase() for granted.
 Most other systems require a database connection which its self requires parameters
 We want to be able to set these parameters with NO HARDCODING
 Thankfully Websphere allows application specific variables

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 These are stored in the application “Deployment descriptor” or
web.xml
 This is a XML configuration file that is used to store artifacts
that are used in a Java application.
 It controls many functions for your applications including
 Servlets and URL Paths
 The Welcome File List
 Error Handlers
 Recourses

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 First add the variables to the Web.xml including default values
<env-entry>
<env-entry-name>RESTusername</env-entry-name>
<env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
<env-entry-value>restadmin</env-entry-value>
</env-entry>

<env-entry>
<env-entry-name>RESTpassword</env-entry-name>
<env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
<env-entry-value>password123</env-entry-value>
</env-entry>
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 On a deployed application
you can see and edit the
Environment variables from
the properties of deployed
applications

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 This can enable your admin to keep production passwords away from developers
or simply not hardcode things

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 There are multiple ways to access the variables, we are just doing to use the simplest,
which is to pick them up off the “initialContext”
initCtx = new InitialContext();
String rESTurl = (String) initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env/RESTurl");

 Ensure that you use the full name so “Java:/comp/env” + the name you gave them

 A more advanced way is with the @Resource annotation
 See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_annotation &
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/annotations/basics.html for annotations
background
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 Here we are just picking them all
up

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Native WAS Application - Fetching Domino Data
 Now that we don’t have to hardcode variables we can go get the Data from the Domino
API we have written previously.
 Go to https://code.google.com/p/google-gson/ ,download the “google-gson-2.2.4release.zip”, and extract it

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 Select the “Lib” directory in
“WEB-INF”, right click and
select “Import”  “File System”

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 Find and select the gson Jar file

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Native WAS Application - Fetching Dominio Data

 We are going to fetch the JSON Data from Domino and parse it into a Java class so that
it is easy to work with
 As we can’t be bothered to manually convert the JSON data to a POJO* we will use
http://www.jsonschema2pojo.org/

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Native WAS Application - Fetching Dominio Data
Select “JSON” and
use some of the data
from the testing with
the DEV HTTP
Client

Selecting the Lowest
common
Denominator here

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 Gives us this Class which we can use

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 As we are going to use this class for
converting from JSON add
“@XmlRootElement” just above the
class name

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Here is the class
being used.

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Native WAS Application - Posting to Connections
 Now that we have a List of Request Objects, lets send some of their details to the
Connections Activity Stream.
 Go to http://abdera.apache.org/ ,download the zip, and extract it
 Get the Main Jar

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 Lots and lots of supporting Jar files.
 You don’t need them all depending
which of the Abdera functions you use.
 This is also a perfect example of what
can lead to “jar hell”.
 Note: Once you happy with ATOM in
general and are only doing Integration
with connections, switch to the Social
Business Toolkit
(https://www.ibmdw.net/social)

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 Select the “lib” directory in

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 Find and select the Abdera Jar and
import it
 Repeat the process for the supporting
Jar files in the lib folder

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 Jar files added to this project are automatically
on the build path i.e.
 Go to the Project Properties
 Select “Java Build Path”, go to the
“libraries”
 You can see the files are already on the
build path

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 First let’s write a function that can take one of the Request objects we have converted
our Domino JSON data to and send it to Connections

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 Now let’s write some code to hold it all together

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 That’s all well and good but how are these functions called in the first place?
 What we really need is something like Domino Agent Manager but for a
Websphere app

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Native WAS Application - Scheduled Updates
 Go to http://quartz-scheduler.org/ ,download the Jars, and extract them

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 Select the “Lib” directory in

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 Find and select the Quartz Jar files

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 Quartz uses an Event Listener
 http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E15051_01/wls/docs103/webapp/app_events.html#wp178122
 We have to add that listener to the Web.xml file

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<context-param>

 Quartz Listener and
Basic Parameters for
Web.xml
 Which gives things like
the location of the
Quartz properties file

<param-name>quartz:config-file</param-name>
<param-value>/quartz.properties</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>quartz:shutdown-on-unload</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>quartz:wait-on-shutdown</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>

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<param-name>quartz:start-scheduler-on-load</param-name>


 Next we will create the quartz.properties
file in the “WebRoot”  “WEB-INF” 
“classes”

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 And populate it with some defaults

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 Now we want a servlet
for the quartz scheduler
“agent manager” to run
in.
 Open up the web.xml file
and add the
configuration for a
servlet

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<servlet>

 Add the following to the WEB.XML

<servlet-name>QuartzInitializer</servlet-name>

<servlet-class>
 The “<load-on-startup>2</load-onstartup>” means that this servlet starts
com.connect2014.ScheduledAgentStarter
when the application starts and triggers
</servlet-class>
the class “init”

 You can see the class name that we
need to create next in the “<servletclass>” parameter.

<init-param>
<param-name>shutdown-on-unload</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>

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<load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>


 That’s the equivalent to “Agent Manager” set up, now lets do a “Scheduled
Agent”, a chunk of code that will start when the web app starts.
 First let’s build our base agent by creating a new Class and getting the default
quartzScheduler

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 As you can see the class we created on the last slide extends “HttpServlet” and
contains “init”

 That means that when the servlet we added to the web.xml starts (when the
application starts), it will run the “init” and we can start scheduling

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Inside the init function of your
schedule we now define:
1)A new job (linked to our Class)

1

2)A schedule
3)Link the Job and schedule
together
4)Trigger the scheduler i.e. “load
Agent manager”

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2
3
4

– While we are here this is a Crontrigger
•

http://quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-2.2.x/tutorials/tutorial-lesson-06

– Very very powerful, but sometimes overly complex

•

If you need a simpler version, check out “Simple Triggers”
•

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http://quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-2.2.x/tutorials/tutorial-lesson-05


Also we need to send all the
environmental parameters we
built before, into the new “Job” we
have just created

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To enable our existing class to be used as a Job, is has to have “implements Job”

And it must possess the “execute” method

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Finally we can now add the code we wrote before to this function as well as pickup all the
variables

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Native WAS Application – Build and Deploy Application
 Build the Ear file and deploy the application as per previous native application example

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Native WAS Application
 Once the Application
Starts, it pumps
entries to the Actor
user’s* activity stream
from the domino rest
service

*(the one who's credentials
are supplied)
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Recommendations and
Further Reading

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Recommendations and Further Reading
 As already mentioned neither Connections nor its host, Websphere, are application
development platforms in the way Domino is.
– You will need to bring your own toolbox of libraries and toolkits to perform many of the
functions that you have taken for granted with Domino

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Further reading
 When you need: Agent Manager
 We Recommend: Quartz (http://quartz-scheduler.org/)

 Alternative: java.util.Timer
– Simpler but not as powerful
– Example: http://www.mkyong.com/java/jdk-timer-scheduler-example/

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Further reading
 When you need: To connect to a Relational Databases (such as the Native Connections
Dbs)
 We Recommend: Hibernate using JPA
 When we moved from Domino to Connections we went from the easy going world of NOSQL
and constantly being in a database context to Relational databases and defining our own
contexts (most likely DB2)
 There are lots of fighting over if you should use a ORM (Object-relational mapping)
framework such as JPA or direct SQL, but frankly, its quick, reliable and does not give you
grief
 See Slide deck on SHOW104

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Further reading
 When you need: Make your data accessible as Json
 We Recommend: gson https://code.google.com/p/google-gson

 Alternatives: Jboss Resteasy (http://www.jboss.org/resteasy) & Jersey
(https://jersey.java.net)

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Further reading – ATOM (Connections feeds)
 When you need: Talk to Connections (ATOM)
 We Recommend: Abdera (http://abdera.apache.org/)

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Further reading - Email
 When you need: Send an Email
 We Recommend: https://javamail.java.net/nonav/docs/api/
 Get the SMTP server details off your admin as they will
already be setup for connections (it was in the notifications
part of the Connections setup)

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Further reading - Email
Properties props = new Properties();
props.put("mail.smtp.host", "my-mail-server");
Session session = Session.getInstance(props, null);

try {
MimeMessage msg = new MimeMessage(session);
msg.setFrom(“sender@ldc.com");
msg.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, "you@example.com");
msg.setSubject("JavaMail hello world example");
msg.setSentDate(new Date());
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msg.setText("Hello, world!n");

Further reading – Homework
 If you think you have a handle on all of this, your next stops
to be a “Proper” Java Developer are
– Maven build management (http://maven.apache.org/)
– Source Control - Git/Github (http://git-scm.com/ &
https://github.com/)
– Continuous integration - Jenkins (http://jenkins-ci.org/)
– A Web framework (Spring http://spring.io/ , Grails,
Vaadin https://vaadin.com/ , GWT, Wicket, Play, Struts
and JSF)
– Spring Annotations to make use of modern Java and
reduce the amount of code you have to write

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 Access Connect Online to complete your session surveys using any:
– Web or mobile browser
– Connect Online kiosk onsite

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