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What's new in the latest Lotus Notes Domino Platform

Upgrade to the latest version of Lotus Notes and Domino.
Understand the new features and put them to work in your business
Appreciate the implications of changes and new features

In Detail
Lotus Notes is an integrated desktop client option for accessing business email, calendars, and applications on a Lotus Domino server. Domino is an application server that can be used as a standalone web server or as the server component of IBM's Lotus Domino product, which provides a powerful collaborative platform for development of customized business applications. It also provides enterprise-grade email, messaging, and scheduling capabilities.

The Lotus Notes powerhouse has been part of the corporate application and messaging architecture for more than 20 years and, over the years, Lotus Notes has come to signify the essence of electronic business communications. With Lotus Notes 8, IBM has once again provided the user with an intuitive, fully integrated platform to enhance each user's experience with business communications. It is no longer just an email tool, but a basis to extend business communications to a new level. This book reviews the current release of the powerful Lotus Notes and Domino architecture platform.

"Written by some of the senior architects and specialists of IBM Software Services for Lotus, this book will provide you with an excellent guide to help you realize the value of your investment in Lotus Notes 8. You will learn how to leverage the full capabilities of Lotus Notes 8 and how to quickly move from your existing technology base to this new, feature-rich platform. The authors explore the enhanced productivity tools available with this release, integrating word processing, presentations, and spreadsheets into a seamless unit with your messaging and collaboration solution."

"Developers are not forgotten, as new features and tools are revealed. You will delve into the world of SOA, as the authors show you how Lotus Notes can be part of an SOA strategy that can accelerate your business integration and generate value. The book finishes with a few words about other Lotus products, such as Lotus Sametime, Lotus Quickr, Lotus Connections, and IBM WebSphere Portal--like IBM Lotus Notes, all built on the open-standards-based Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) technology. These products are all converging to become the next generation of people productivity solutions."

[Taken from the foreword of the book, written by Mark J. Guerinot, Director, Americas IBM Software Services for Lotus (ISSL)]

What you will learn from this book?

Get accustomed to the new Lotus Notes 8 client:

Learn how Lotus Notes 8 can help assemble applications using SOA
Using the Lotus composite application editor
Leverage Notes' open framework to play a key part in SOA
Utilizing productivity tools via Open Document Format (ODF): IBM Lotus Documents, IBM Lotus Presentations, IBM Lotus Spreadsheets
Get accustomed to the new Lotus Domino 8 server enhancements for:

Authenticating against Domino Standards-based LDAP
Integration with DB2, WebSphere, IBM Tivoli Enterprise
Working out a solid upgrade plan
Detailed discussion of upgrade issues for moving to version 8
Example use case that can be used as a template for your upgrade
Tackling Notes client coexistence issues:

Tackling Domino server coexistence issues:

Tutorial on consuming web services
List of important additions to formula language and LotusScript
New tools in Domino Designer 8, Lotus Component Designer, and Lotus Expediter
Web 2.0 in Notes/Domino: RSS/Atom, blogs, AJAX
Integrating with Lotus Quickplace/Quickr, Lotus Sametime, Lotus Connections
Extend your Lotus Notes/Domino 8 environment:

Approach

This book walks through the new features in the Lotus Notes/Domino 8 suite and documents these features in a technical, descriptive way, rather than presenting tutorials and examples.
The book also talks about likely problems that the user might face while upgrading, and shows how to get the most of the exciting new features. Who this book is written for?

Lotus Notes power users, administrators, and developers working with any version of Lotus Notes/Domino, who want to upgrade to Lotus Notes/Domino 8.

Customer Reviews & Comments
I was given a reviewers copy of this book. With the availability of Lotus Notes and Domino Release 8, comes a host of new features for the software. I am sure that if you are working with that software, you are aware of most of them. However, this book does a great job of examining all of the new features and functions, and more. Contents: Forward Preface Chapter 1: A Short History of Notes and Domino Chapter 2: Overview of New Lotus Notes 8 Client Features Chapter 3: Lotus Notes 8 and SOA Chapter 4: Productivity Tools Chapter 5: Lotus Domino 8 Server Features Chapter 6: Deployment Enhancements in Notes/Domino 8 Chapter 7: Upgrading to Notes/Domino 8 Chapter 8: Coexistence between Notes/Domino Releases Chapter 9: What's New in Notes/Domino 8 Development Chapter 10: Integration with Other IBM/Lotus Products Appendix: Third-Party Tools Index If you are working toward upgrading your Lotus Notes/Domino infrastructure, or deciding if Lotus Notes/Domino is for you, Lotus Notes Domino 8: Upgraders Guide, by Tim Speed, Bennie Gibson, Joseph Anderson, Dick McCarrick, Brad Schauf, Barry Rosen, and David Byrd, will give you quite a lot of information in a slim (253 pages) book. From a history of Notes and Domino to what to expect with Notes/Domino 8, this book covers a lot of ground. If you are expecting a book to help you upgrade your environment, Chapter 7 will help you with the planning. The other chapters will show you what to expect. The final chapter will give you an excellent overview on integrating your Notes/Domino environment with Quickr, Sametime, and Connections. A lot of information in a small book. But if you are simply looking to upgrade your environment, the authors put quite a bit in about 17 pages (Chapter 7). After following their upgrade plan, you should be very confident of taking on the task of moving your environment to Release 8. I am well aware of the new features, but I did pick up quite a few new ones by reading this book. They give the important new server features a lot of consideration as well as why the Eclipse platform is so important. Further, I was surprised that this book included a chapter on the new development features and explanations of leveraging Web 2.0 (like RSS) in your applications. As weird as it sounds, I did get a laugh from the book due to a typographical error. In Chapter 1, they told about a new Release 7 feature, "Frivolity Autonomic Monitoring Engine (TAME). I think the word should have been "Tivoli." My only other gripe with this book is that the Index needed to be better. It seemed that they spent a lot of space on the third-party tools at the expense of LDAP, DirLint, and others. Other than those issues, the authors did an exceptional job with this book, especially since there are a lot of new features in this release in the Client, Server, and Designer areas. This book is worth your time if you are upgrading your environment or looking at Notes and Domino 8.

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