MWLUG 2011: The Never Ending Integration Story
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This document outlines an agenda for a presentation on integrating Lotus Notes, Domino, and LotusLive applications with Microsoft Office, .NET, and Lotus Symphony. The presentation covers introductions, getting started with basic integration demos, advanced integration from the Notes client, other applications, and the web. It also discusses looking forward and taking questions. Integration history and tools are reviewed. Advanced demos include using the OpenNTF Contacts Experience template and document generation without a desktop app using OOXML, ODF and PDF standards.
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MWLUG 2011: The Never Ending Integration Story
- 1. The Never Ending Integration Story: How to Integrate Your Lotus Notes, Domino, and LotusLive applications with Microsoft Office, .NET, and Lotus Symphony John Head, PSC Group, LLC © 2011 PSC Group, LLC
- 2. Agenda • Introductions • “Getting Started” with Integration • Advanced Integration – From the Notes Client – From other applications – From the Web • Looking Forward • Q&A
- 3. John Head jhead@psclistens.com Facebook.com/johndhead Facebook.com/PSCGroup Twitter.com/johnhead Twitter.com/PSCGroup 1051 Perimeter Drive Suite 500 LinkedIN.com/in/johndhead Linkedin.com/company/psc-group-llc Schaumburg, IL 60173 Slideshare.com/johndhead Slideshare.com/PSCGroup Youtube.com/johnhead Youtube.com/PSCGroup (847) 517-7200 (847) 517-7600 fax www.johndavidhead.com www.pscgroup.com
- 4. F O U N D E D I N 1 9 9 0
- 5. Our Our People Clients Our Solutions PSC Ecosystem
- 6. People Clients Direction Prospects Delivery
- 7. • Integration • Mobile Enablement • Workflow • Custom Applications • Rules Engines • Dashboards • Collaboration • Process Improvement • SOA • Agile/Sustainable • Portals/Websites Architectures Our Partners
- 8. The Never Ending Story • Building on top of past 10 years of presentations on this topic – More Content – Every demo updated – Brand New Demos – Take Advantage of the modern software versions • Notes 8.5.2 and 8.5.3 • Office 2010 • Symphony 1.3 & 3.0 • .NET 4.0 • Visual Studio 2010 • Much of the basics of integration have had to be left out … • But you can access our presentations from previous years …
- 9. The Demo Databases Presentation example database Contains all of the “Getting Started” Demos Works in your Notes Client Configurable for your environment New UI for Rich Client, works in Standard client as well OpenNTF.org Contacts Experience Customized Notes 8.5.2 Contacts Template Version on server for web and web services demos
- 23. Poll Results: PSC Sessions in 2010
- 24. Poll Results: WorldWide 2011
- 25. Let's Review how we got to 2011
- 37. Integration History 1994 2005 DDE with Ami Pro Notes Domino 7 with Web services 1996 2007 Notes R4 2007 Office System OLE Lotus Notes/Domino 8 LotusScript Lotus Symphony VBA 2008 1997 Visual Studio 2008 SmartSuite with LotusScript (Word Pro) Notes/Domino 8.5 1998 2009 Notes R5 with COM support Notes 8.5.1 2001 Domino Designer in Eclipse Notes Domino 6 2010 2004 Office 2010 Notes Domino 6.5 with LS2J and DXL Symphony 3.0 Otherwise known – How to Make John Feel Really Old!!!!
- 38. The Good News We have entered the “Industrial Revolution” period of the Integration Era In the “Medieval Times” DDE with Ami Pro NotesSQL was used to get even the most basic of data OLE embedding Notes F/X
- 39. The Good News (continued) The Renaissance brought us new tools OLE automation COM automation And much more The Revolution brings us major changes A true competitor to Office in Lotus Symphony Visual Studio.NET 2010 and VSTO 4.0 Code begins to move from inside a document to complete applications
- 40. Agenda • Introductions • “Getting Started” with Integration • Advanced Integration – From the Notes Client – From other applications – From the Web • Looking Forward • Q&A
- 41. “Getting Started” Demos • Each demo is the equivalent of a “Hello World” sample • They are self contained and as little code as possible – No error trapping, etc • This will get you started with Integration
- 42. Getting Started • Word ● Symphony Documents (UNO) • Excel ● Symphony Spreadsheets (UNO) • PPT ● Symphony Presentations (UNO) • Project ● Symphony Documents (LS API) • Visio ● Symphony Spreadsheets (LS API) • VBA ● Symphony Presentations (LS API) ● C#
- 43. Use the Microsoft Constants Database • Provides a listing of all Microsoft • Office variables and their converted constants • Extraction of constants by John Collidge • Database built by Tom Duff • Now an OpenNTF.org project • Supports Microsoft Office 2000, XP, 2003, and 2007 http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/project.xsp?action=openDocument&docume ntId=1F6C5C7B16317E218625726D004A31A9
- 44. Agenda • Introductions • “Getting Started” with Integration • Advanced Integration – From the Notes Client – From other applications – From the Web • Looking Forward • Q&A
- 45. Advanced integration from the Notes Client From your Contacts application: • Create Letter • Create Envelope • Mass Mail Merge • Export • Create Presentation • Labels • Templates • Custom Fields This requires that you replace the design of your Contacts application with the OpenNTF.org Contacts Experience template
- 46. OpenNTF.org Contacts Experience • Free template on OpenNTF.org • Release 2.0 • Works with 8.0 and above – Microsoft Office • Works with 8.5.1 and above – Lotus Symphony http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/project.xsp?action=openDocument&name=Open NTF.org%20Contacts%20Experience
- 47. Agenda • Introductions • “Getting Started” with Integration • Advanced Integration – From the Notes Client – From other applications – From the Web • Looking Forward • Q&A
- 48. Advanced Integration from other applications • Insert Image • Insert Slide • Notes Explorer • Document Automation vs. Generation – OOXML – ODF
- 49. Advanced Integration from other Applications Notes Explorer • A C# and .NET solution that extends Microsoft Explorer to allow navigation of Domino applications from within Explorer. Notes Explorer is the combination of the Lotus Connectors and DNFS (Domino Network Files Services) from the Notes 5.x time frame.
- 50. Advanced Integration from other Applications Notes Explorer • Using a custom VSTO solution, add an Insert Image Ribbon, menu item, and sidebar that allows for easy image insertion from a Notes repository.
- 51. Automation vs. Generation • Document Generation is starting to become a viable option – Using the standard formats of OOXML, ODF, and PDF • Instead of requiring the application to be present, this is done with no interaction of any application • Tools – C# and the OOXML Toolkit for Office – Java and the Simple Java API for ODF for Symphony – Numerous PDF APIs and Toolkits for both .NET and Java • Can generate server side in a fraction of the time
- 52. OOXML • Default format of Office 2007 and Office • ZIP container of text, images, etc. 2010 • Open XML SDK 1.0 – Ok, ok … there are three versions – Allows for handling container 1) Office 2007 OOXML 2) ECMA-376 • Open XML SDK 2.0 3) ISO/IEC 29500:2008 4) Office 2010 OOXML • Allows XML exploration of files for – Word – Excel – PowerPoint – Allows for document manipulation
- 53. ODF • Open Document Format • Used by OpenOffice.org and Lotus Symphony • Open Document 1.0 – ISO/IEC 26300:200 • Open Document 1.1 • Open Document 1.2 • We are using the Simple Java API for ODF created by IBM • http://odftoolkit.org/projects/simpl e/pages/Home
- 54. Document Generation Demo • A custom developed C# application that uses the Open XML SDK 2.0 and the Simple Java API for ODF created by IBM. We are also using an opensource PDF toolkit.
- 55. Agenda • Introductions • “Getting Started” with Integration • Advanced Integration – From the Notes Client – From other applications – From the Web • Looking Forward • Q&A
- 56. Advanced Integration from the web • Integration with Microsoft Web Technologies – Integration with IBM Lotus XPages
- 57. Advanced Integration from the Web IBM Lotus XPages • A demo of an IBM Lotus XPages application using the IBM ODF Toolkit to generate documents
- 58. Agenda • Introductions • “Getting Started” with Integration • Advanced Integration – From the Notes Client – From other applications – From the Web • Looking Forward • Q&A
- 59. 2011 and Beyond We finally have great tools VS.NET 2010 and DDE Great Changes Coming • Productivity Tools are moving to the web ▬ Google Docs ▬ Lotus Symphony On-line and LotusLive ▬ Microsoft Office On-line and Microsoft 365 • End User Device Shift ▬ How many of you have tablets today? Next year? We have multiple options Office, Symphony, OpenOffice.org, Google Docs, iWork, etc. Competition will be good for us … if we can deal with all the changes
- 60. PSC's Effort to Shape the Integration Market in 2011 • Our goal in 2011 is – Provide 24/7 education about the integration market – Education and extend in the Automation space – Bring new developers to the Document Generation Space – Continue a leader in ODF and OOXML usage in the Lotus community • To achieve these goals … We introduce integrationdestination.com • Launching mid Sept 2011 • We will start with recording videos with every automation demo we have done … ever (52) – Every version of Office still supported – All of the extra stuff • Far more to come!
- 61. Resources LDD Discussions (Notes.Net) http://www-130.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org OpenOffice Developers Guide http://api.openoffice.org/DevelopersGuide/DevelopersGuide.html Programming OpenOffice with Visual Basic http://www.kalitech.fr/clients/doc/VB_APIOOo_en.html Microsoft Office developer’s Web site http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/default.aspx Microsoft Developer Network http://msdn.microsoft.com
- 62. Resources (cont.) Microsoft Office blog listing http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905342.aspx OpenNTF.org — the open source Web site for Notes www.openntf.org Integra4Notes Web site www.integra4notes.com Slides and content available from http://www.johndavidhead.com http://www.psclistens.com