Lotus Developer2008 will deliver 45 in-depth sessions spanning 4 tracks.. You’re free to mix and match your choice of sessions that best suit your training needs without being tied down to any particular track. Plus, your registration lets you attend any sessions from Admin2008, and the Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Upgrade and Development Seminars, all together in one location.

Track 1: Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Development
Track 2: Programming Language Best Practices
Track 3: User Interface Design and Client Development
Track 4: Web Development Best Practices
New Technology Sessions
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions

Get the 30,000 foot view of all that’s new in Release 8 development and hit the ground running with the knowledge of what really matters, where it works, and when to implement. Learn the differences between the Basic and Standard (Eclipse-based) Notes 8 clients to gauge their impact on your applications, and determine when the new disk structure (ODS) is appropriate. See which ini parameters and design element changes will give you the most bang for the buck, and get key upgrade considerations for optimizing your applications. Understand the quantum shift in thinking that composite applications introduce, what the new productivity tools bring to the table, and find out where you may need to sharpen your skills to take advantage of all that’s new.

Dive into the additions and improvements to the formula language, LotusScript, and Java to understand the impact they have on new and existing applications. Determine which changes in the formula language you’ll want to implement, and learn how to expand the functionality of your applications with new LotusScript and Java methods. Get the lowdown on security changes through policies that can affect your applications and walk through agent settings necessary to execute LotusScript and Java code on the Domino server and Notes client. See how agent profiling can help you locate performance bottlenecks in your agents and understand the impact of fully implementing a Java 1.5 runtime environment. Take home a database of all the language changes with detailed examples of each one in action.

Peer into the actual implementation of ND8 design techniques through deconstruction of the Mail and Personal Address Book templates. Gain a deeper understanding of the best ways to implement new functionality like typeahead fields, inline spell check, split-action buttons, business card views, view column options, and much more. Find out which features you can use with mixed client versions, which ones require ND8, and which features require code to implement. Leave this session with the skills to add the best of the new features to your applications.

This session dives into two open–source toolkits built specifically for Domino to provide best–in–class design elements for Web applications. See how easily you can take advantage of all the new functionality, including layouts, name pickers, calendar controls, views, outlines, and navigators. Develop a solid understanding of the numerous tools available within each of these toolkits, and watch as a complex Web application is built from scratch — once with EXT.ND and once with Dojomino — to produce high–quality, impressive Web applications quickly and easily. And best of all, these tools provide you with the design consistency you’ve been looking for within and among all of your Web applications.

Eclipse has become the foundation for Lotus Notes and Domino 8 as well as Rational, Portlet Factory, and Expeditor, giving developers the capability to reuse existing assets and build applications to integrate processes more quickly and efficiently. In this session, you get step-by-step instructions on how to install, configure, and update the Eclipse platform. Learn to navigate the development environment using perspectives, views, and editors and gain new techniques for developing, deploying, and debugging Java agents that run in Domino.

Lotus Expeditor is the IBM standard for new thick–client deployment, and Lotus Notes is the first example of it. Dive into the new capabilities provided in the Lotus Expeditor client, which include offline capabilities, a J2EE server, and a database. See how you can develop stand-alone applications for the Expeditor client, Sametime, and Lotus Notes, and how those applications can be centrally deployed and managed. Rapidly build and deploy applications (i.e., composite applications) to managed clients on many different devices, including mobile.

Provide quick and easy access to a variety of tools, information, and applications (like Sametime, RSS Feeds, Activities, and lots more) in the sidebar through ready-built or custom-built plug-ins. Learn just what makes a good plug-in and get a firsthand look at how to create your own plug-ins for the client sidebar–including integration with other content showing in the Notes client using built-in menu items for user selection. Follow along as a plug-in is developed and distributed to the Notes client through a new Notes update site, and take home a fully functional plug-in that you can deploy and use right away.

Gain a solid understanding of the new tools and terminology that go along with composite applications. Learn to wire together new and old applications to create and expose new contextual relationships to your users. Starting with a new composite application that integrates a Notes view, a Notes form, a Web page, and a custom plug-in, we’ll break it all down to show how all the pieces fit together. See how to install and use the Composite Application Editor and wiring tool in ND8 and discover what “wiring”, “namespaces”, and the “Property Broker” are. You walk away with a sample application, including all the code and instructions to do it yourself.

Dive into a deeper understanding of composite application development to create cooperative portlets using Web- Sphere Portlet Factory. Uncover gotchas and best practices for installing and configuring Portlet Factory in order to develop target and source portlets. Learn the proper WSDL definitions so that your portlets can be wired together as a composite application. Discover how Portlet Factory enables you to easily create composite applications that integrate data from multiple back-end systems, such as PeopleSoft, SAP, and relational databases. Find out how to create your own builders and implement features (e.g., profiling) that take advantage of the advanced customization capabilities.

Arm yourself with the skills to build your own Web Services for Domino applications and publish modular applications for consumption. Using a NotesDirectory lookup as an example, learn how to easily create, test, and troubleshoot your own custom services and get expert instruction on writing a Web service in both LotusScript and Java. Examine simple and complex data types, special considerations for using Web services, and the most effective ways to test them. See the major changes between Web services in Domino 7 and 8 including those gotchas — what you think will work, but doesn’t. Walk away with a Web service that you can immediately put to use in your own environment.

Now that you have the know-how to produce Web services, see first-hand the new capability to consume Web services in Notes and Domino 8 using both LotusScript and Java. Get step-by-step guidance for configuring the Notes client and Domino server to properly consume these Web services, which you make available to Notes applications through Web service-enabled script libraries, known as Web service consumers. Learn how to write the relevant Web service code in LotusScript and Javascript libraries and then call that code from your Notes and Domino 8 agents. Walk away with working examples on how to consume Web services utilizing both simple and complex data types.

Discover the capabilities that Domino 8 provides for housing an application’s data and view indices on DB2, integrating RDBMS tables into Notes views, and making Domino data accessible as SQL tables to other systems. Learn how to set up an NSF/DB2 environment, move an application from NSF to DB2, and create new functionality for your applications via query views and Domino access views. See how NSF/DB2 compares to DECS, DCRS, and LEI to understand where it’s appropriate to use. You take home a Notes application built on NSF/DB2 that leverages the Domino directory to provide relational database access to Person records and contains query views that integrate additional information from a back-end HR system.

Reduce your coding time and successfully manage the increasing complexity and design of your LotusScript code with these 30 time-tested tips. Compare and contrast real life examples of both good and bad development practices, and learn how to avoid the most common LotusScript coding mistakes. Come away with critical advice to avoid the pitfalls associated with poorly written and difficult-to-maintain applications. Walk through important object-oriented techniques and learn the correct usage of structures, classes, and “lists”. Take home a valuable example database that demonstrates the successful application of each tip so you can easily incorporate them into your own applications.

Learn how to code defensively so you can catch errors as they happen, long before your users tell you about them. See how you can share an error-handling script library across all your databases to easily implement error trapping and logging in your existing code, without affecting functionality. Get key tips to make sure you’re notified immediately via email and RSS feeds when errors happen. In this session you’ll uncover expert advice on using open–source technologies, like Open-Log, to help handle the process for you, and on managing your LotusScript, JavaScript, and Java errors all in the same place. Plus you’ll take home an open source OpenLog database that you can put to work right away.

Discover a practical, real-world approach to mastering Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in LotusScript so you can write code that is clean, modular, and easy to test. Come see for yourself how OOP enables you to easily modify, extend, and reuse your LotusScript code using objects, classes, methods, lists, and more. This session shows you how to write and call your own custom classes in LotusScript, how to extend and test your current classes with subclasses, and how to determine what should or shouldn’t be an object. You walk away with a sample database full of examples of custom classes and OOP techniques.

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is the cornerstone of important programming languages and is an essential component within the Java framework. Get the ball rolling with a quick outline of OOP theory and then dive headfirst into real-world examples that demonstrate how to create and use your own classes and how those relate to the LotusScript Object Model. See how using OOP to create complex Domino applications makes them far simpler to maintain with code that is more reusable than ever before. Walk away from this session with a complete database that demonstrates all the theory covered.

If you’ve had some experience with object-oriented programming (OOP) using LotusScript and want to take your skills to the next level, then this session is for you! Find out the most efficient ways to extend your code and make it more flexible. Using techniques such as late binding, overloading, encapsulation, and inheritance, you gain the technical skills to quickly build complex data structures to help you solve your most critical business problems. You’ll leave with a fully functional Lotus Notes application containing enterprise ready features such as error trapping, log levels, code reuse and a far greater understanding of OOP methodology using LotusScript.

This session supplies you with a collection of 30 best practices to create more dynamic and extensible Java code to enhance and extend your Domino applications. Begin writing, testing, and organizing code for maximum reuse. No more hunting around for bits and pieces of information on the best approaches to Domino development using Java: you get it all here. Walk away with lots of working Java code that you can take home and put to use in your own environment. This session is ideal for anyone who wants to write more productive Java code for their Domino applications!

Take advantage of Java applications without investing in WebSphere or a similar application server. See how to incorporate Java techniques directly into your Domino environment by leveraging two popular Java application frameworks, Spring and Hibernate. Uncover best practices to integrate an enterprise service bus into Domino- the cutting edge of Web services. Understand the strengths and weaknesses of the approaches covered, how they complement each other, and how to leverage them to speed up application development. Walk away with a new understanding of what these frameworks provide for you (like e-transactions!) and how to implement them in the Domino environment.

Grasp the importance of good UI design in building dynamic, user-friendly applications, and pick up essential design techniques to create more powerful and more dynamic UIs in the Notes client. Learn how to leverage the advanced features in Domino Designer and get a detailed code walk-through so you can immediately begin implementing these design concepts. Take a deep dive into layers, embedded form and editor combos, and on-the-fly report generation. Explore best practices for exploiting common design elements like combining embedded views, using outlines and folders to create drag-and-drop document processing functionality, and a lot more. You walk away with a sample database containing all of the examples used in this session to take home and use as your own.

Templates are everywhere. Notes ships with them, and you can find lots more at Lotus Sandbox, OpenNTF, and other blog sites. This session gives you a fast-paced look at some of the best templates drawn from a variety of different sources, including administrative and development tools, advanced business applications, and generic application frameworks. Cut down your development time by building on the good work of someone else. Whether you’re a developer, admin, or both, you’ll come away from this session ready to put these templates into action to help make you more productive, make your job easier, and impress your clients.

This session equips you with all the skills you need to effectively create reports, charts, and graphs from — and in — your Lotus Notes databases, with no third-party tools to buy. See how to create custom-built reports with data from your expense-tracking database for a more efficient way of handling data. Then, learn how to construct charts on–the–fly in a Lotus Notes database as well as generate graphs from your Notes help desk system. Learn how to build and implement a Web page for your organization that acts like a dashboard displaying metrics from several sources. Find out how you can build a Web page that acts like a dashboard displaying metrics from several sources and implement it in your organization. Walk away with a Notes database containing sample code that demonstrates all the techniques covered.

Come check out SuperNTF, the open-source Notes application framework built from the ground up to make implementation of development best practices easy, even for novices. See how the capabilities and simplicity of this template encourage wide adoption, enabling you to promote coding standards across your organization. Avoid common pitfalls when employing tricky Notes features such as soft deletions, integrated help, and error handling. Learn about the template’s advanced features for user–activity and field–change tracking, configuration, and data reporting/exporting. This session provides an in-depth look at SuperNTF to see how it can help inject new life into existing apps and/or provide a strong foundation for new apps.

Find out what you as a developer can do to identify, fix, and prevent the most common application performance problems. Learn how to balance performance, functionality, and maintainability so you can determine where best to invest efforts to improve performance. Pick up dozens of expert tips on Notes and Web development using @Formulas, LotusScript, and JavaScript; views and forms; referencing and storing images; optimizing database properties; using SSL and CSS. Learn how to trace slow performance in live applications and understand the Domino application performance improvements available in versions 6, 7, and 8. You’ll walk away armed with over 50 tips to avoid the most common design pitfalls that can slow Domino applications.

This advanced session presents both administrators and developers with in-depth techniques for performance design and analysis. Find out how to optimize server caching and understand the performance effects of various database properties and settings in the Server document, Configuration document, and NOTES.INI file. Uncover the relationships between various performance symptoms and the server’s processor, file system, memory, and network, so you know where the bottlenecks are. Watch examples of tracing slow performance in live applications and get tips on using the Agent Profiler (release 7 onward) to identify the parts of your code that are the slowest. Take away a proven methodology for diagnosing slow applications, reusable code for snappy editable dynamic tables, and an open-source tool for determining exactly what Notes is waiting for whenever the yellow lightning bolt displays.

Take advantage of new techniques and methods to build full-featured, elegant, and reliable custom views on the Web using AJAX and JSON. Get lightweight working code and detailed instruction on how to provide advanced navigation and enhanced features such as scrolling, current view position, total document counters, document previews, subviews, and more. You’ll not only learn proven AJAX/JSON coding techniques, but more importantly how to implement them in your environment. Examine specific JSON capabilities that are exposed in Domino 7.0.2 and 8 views, and see how to implement subviews from view categories. Take home a list of functioning URL commands to manipulate views, plus lots of working code.

You’ve heard the buzz and seen examples — now find out what’s really going on with AJAX and how you can apply it to build more powerful, intuitive, and easy-to navigate Domino applications. Dive down into the underlying architecture of the technologies in play and learn firsthand how they can be applied to enrich the interfaces of your current Domino applications. This session walks you through the steps to apply AJAX, using examples that take you from the ground up for view presentation, form interaction, and control widgets. Come away with a better understanding of this cutting–edge technology, a list of helpful on line resources to help you get started, as well as guidance on which debugging tools can speed your development cycle.

Take a deep dive into the two main options for supporting your Domino applications in BlackBerry, the Mobile Data System (MDS) and Sync Server SDK. See the benefits of each and best practices for implementing them in your environment. Uncover the different development options available, including BlackBerry Browser development, BlackBerry JDE and BlackBerry Mobile Data System 4.1. Examine the BlackBerry Client for Lotus Connections, a J2ME application developed to extend your current Lotus Connections environment. You will also get detailed information on extending IBM Quickr to the BlackBerry so you can hit the ground running.

Improve the performance and user experience of your Domino/Next Web applications using Dojo widgets and code snippets that provide you with convenient building blocks for your applications. Find out the key considerations for quickly creating and deploying your own Dojo widgets in the next release of Domino. We’ll cover the most fundamental Dojo design concepts, leaving you geared up for developing more productive and efficient applications. We’ll also explore both inheritance and encapsulation along with the most common pitfalls in creating Dojo widgets. We’ll dive into how the Dojo platform is integrated with Domino and with Domino Designer.

Attend this session and start writing Web services that provide platform–independent, language–independent, application-to-application data interchange immediately. Develop a solid understanding of how to use Domino objects for creating Web services and get a real grip on using classes, arrays, and data types to understand what works and what doesn’t. Examine methods for easily consuming Web services within your application, and also learn how to provide Web services to other applications. Get best practices for overcoming Web service challenges, such as returning custom errors/faults, using complex data types, writing enumerations, and much more. Take home a complete database filled with code that you can begin implementing in your own environment.

Come check out some of the great things you can do in Domino using XML. Start building applications that can talk to one another both quickly and easily, without rewriting all of the applications involved in the process. Learn how to incorporate XML into Domino applications using standard design elements such as agents, forms, pages and views. Get tips for creating a view that displays XML data and then learn how to start applying XSL stylesheets to XML data programmatically. From DXL to Web Services, get everything you need to know to begin successfully using XML in your Domino solutions and get answers to the key questions on where and why you should use XML.

Learn how to overcome one of the major weaknesses of developing Web applications with Domino Designer — its lack of an automated testing solution. Delve deep into unit and integrated testing using freely available software and start delivering higher quality Domino Web applications. Walk away with a rock-solid understanding of the different testing tools available and the approaches that enable faster development with fewer bugs. You also learn how you can use testing tools to help maintain your current applications. This session covers unit, system, and load testing and gives you everything you need to implement an automated testing solution.

Take a sneak peak at what’s coming with the Domino Web application platform beyond Release 8. Learn all about IBM’s plans for updating the HTML markup structure and content to help you build even better looking Web applications. You’ll also hear about the new server functionality that will make your Lotus Domino-based Web apps more AJAX, Javascript, and stylesheet friendly. Attend this session and get a glimpse into the some of the great new features coming to Domino.

Attend this session and learn how to transform your Domino Web Access (DWA) into a browser-based client that accommodates your organization’s diverse needs. Discover useful tips and techniques for modifying the DWA look and feel and extending and enhancing its functionality. You get the location of the Lotus Domino design elements that manage the DWA page layout, and you learn all about the special pass-thru HTML syntax and server-side tags used within these design elements. We’ll demonstrate how to remove unwanted actions from any DWA page or add new ones, how to add your own skin component and more.

Take an inside look at the new lightweight Domino Web Access client of the lite mode shipping in release 8.0.1. Get under the hood and gain a detailed understanding of its new framework and many optimizations, which provide users with a simplified mail experience and helps to increase the productivity of traveling users who might be working in bandwidth–constrained environments. Check out a live demonstration that showcases how lite mode has a fully asynchronous, extensible framework that’s built for speed.

Lotus Domino-based Web applications have been around for well over 10 years. The upcoming release of version 8.5 promises lots of new tools and functionality to make it vastly easier to create great-looking and better-performing Web applications But will these new style apps and the tools you use to build them be architecturally compliant with Web 2.0? Come to this session to hear what Web 2.0 really means for Domino Web application development, how you can keep your Domino apps "standards compliant", and perhaps to get some new Best Practices for designing and creating your Web applications.

See how two of the most popular JavaScript toolkits, Ext and Dojo, have been expanded to provide Domino with new widgets for outlines, views, name pickers, calendar controls, pick lists, dialog boxes, tab tables, and more. Learn firsthand how to build a Web 2.0 application for Domino using these extensions. To enable you to compare the features and widgets provided by each toolkit, we walk you through the process of building a new Domino Web application (ala gmail and Google Reader) twice — using Dojomino the first time and then using EXT.ND. You get a solid grasp on creating highly polished Domino Web applications without lots of custom development.

Jump head first into the all-new Sametime 8 Advanced Server and see not only what this new version can offer to your organization but also how to deploy and configure it. Start with a simple overview of the new capabilities, including persistent chat, a suite of broadcast tools, instant desktop sharing, and geographic locations services. Then, take it to the next level and learn more about the required hardware, software, and configurations necessary for a successful implementation. You’ll emerge from this session with a solid understanding of the Advanced Server and a deployment strategy to take back to the office.

Improve the way your organization shares everyday business content and discover a faster, more effective way to team collaboration and document management with the latest version of IBM Lotus Quickr. Get a complete overview of the product plans for Lotus Quickr in 2008 and beyond. We’ll delve into the Lotus strategy for collaborative document management and its innovative team collaboration technology. Take a glimpse of how Lotus Quickr can naturally complement and extend all your current and future Lotus investments. Walk away with the facts you need to take team collaboration to the next level in your organization.

Come get a complete overview of how Lotus Quickr can enable teams to easily share content and collaborate, inside and outside the firewall. This session demos how easy it is to customize, use, and manage Quickr to securely manage projects and content. A nice Web 2.0 UI is important, but the greatest productivity gains come from the use of the connectors that provide access to your content natively from within Lotus and Microsoft applications. Take a tour of the extensible service-based architecture and main deployment scenarios; then pick up a few best practices and get a sneak peak at the next version of Lotus Quickr.

Wrap your arms around social networking, what it is, and why you need to attention to it. Get a detailed overview of the differences between social and collaborative tools, general thinking in the field of social networking, and some of the opportunities and pitfalls that arise as social technologies proliferate. Understand the capabilities of Lotus Connections, and get best practices for deployment, and adoption. You’ll learn why businesses are embracing this technology to improve innovation, connect far-flung corners of their organizations, and make a new generation of professionals feel right at home.

Transform your organization’s collaboration environment to directly support agile, purpose-driven work using Activities, one of the five Web 2.0 components of Lotus Connections. Learn how to track your work with a dashboard, invite and share tasks with others, and manage all the to-dos that you and the other members of your team have on your plates. See how to capture and reuse work to amplify the transfer of people’s knowledge and experience. Follow along and view first-hand business scenarios showing how Activities can transform business work and see how Activities integrates with your existing applications.

Attend this session and learn about several options available deliver Lotus Notes applications to your mobile devices, including IBM’s Lotus Notes Traveler, an out–of–the box, mobile support system for Notes and Domino Web Access users as an administrator uncover the important things administrators need to know. Through customer testimonials, including how Traveler works, its capabilities, and critical integration points. You also get look at the mobile capabilities built-in to IBM Lotus Quickr, IBM Lotus Mobile Sametime, IBM Lotus Connections, and IBM Lotus Expeditor.

Find out how with the release of Lotus Notes 8, a new era of more user-focused designs have emerged at IBM. This session reveals the design processes implemented in latest releases of Lotus Notes, Sametime, and Expeditor as well as an in-depth look at the continuing changes and design decisions that are being made. Take this unique opportunity to get a sneak peak at some of the new design ideas for upcoming features in these products and supply us with your feedback.

Attend this moderated topic forum and find out what your colleagues are doing to keep Lotus solutions running in their organization. Get an inside look at IBM’s current positioning in the marketplace, it’s most recent enhancements in technology, and the real costs involved in deploying these solutions. Plus, you'll have the opportunity to share your own issues and challenges in dealing with management and get the expert advice you need to overcome them.

According to Gartner, IT spending for mobility will be quadruple that of other IT investments in 2008. Users are demanding access to information and applications wherever they are, but companies must develop a cost-effective, scalable, secure mobile strategy. Come share your challenges, successes and questions about mobilizing Lotus Domino applications. Learn from peers where the pitfalls are and what tips and tools can help you deliver mobile solutions that meet the needs of your organization!