Somebody might have recognized as well that the detail level of instructions at the Extending Sametime 7.5 Redbook is getting less the further you are progressing in the book. That’s a concept I really like for two main reasons. First because you don’t want to get told with every new extension point you are using how you have to add the dependency to the project and what steps you have to do to add a new class, secondly because you start running into your first errors and learn a lot about the development as well as the runtime environment while trapping these errors. This time I followed the example for the extension of the Message Event Notification extension point from page 154. Guess what? I ended up with this message:

The type com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.magiccarpet.MessageEventAdapter cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files (more…)

I am certainly not the best reference to be quoted regarding this topic and I would be glad if somebody seeing any incorrectness could point that out so I can amend these details for further reference.

Whereas I did had in mind that the way in which ViewParts are going to be added had been changing from Sametime 7.5 to version 7.5.1, I did not consider the same when I installed the new version yesterday night. When I opened my Eclipse development environment this afternoon I got welcomed with two information in the source code. (more…)

Effective today IBM released Sametime 7.5.1 and made it available to download via Passport Advantage for all customers and partners.
IBM has published a detailed list with added features and functionalities. Though major improvements are certainly the IM video conversation, the integration into Microsoft Office applications and some enhancement within administrative policies.
Being in New Zealand I am in particular interested whether or not the bug has been fixed where Sametime 7.5 could not display the New Zealand daylight saving time, which is DST +13. This bug should been fixed with Sametime 7.5.1.

From the development perspective IBM introduces to the ‘new’ way of creating a sidebar extension. While the class AbstractMiniApp from the package com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.miniapp has been used in version 7.5 to add mini-apps to the Sametime Connect Sametime 7.5.1 uses the standard Eclipse ViewPart class which is defined in the org.eclipse.ui.part package.
Obviously is this the same procedure in Notes 8 to create view extensions. Hence the introduction of this change.

While I have seen quite interesting presentations about Lotus Notes and Domino 8 including the new possibilities to create composite applications I thought it might be worth to bring my Eclipse Java development environment up to the latest release. While about 140 bugs has been fixed with this new maintenance release the main intention behind the installation in my case had been the test whether or not extension elements for org.eclipse.ui are now properly displayed rather than referred to ‘Default’ as described in my previous comment. (more…)

Working on the creation of extensions for the Sametime 7.5 client I had been searching for a Sametime Server I could utilize to log-in and test my extensions. Since I do not have the right hardware to build a dedicated server I had been searching for an public Sametime 7.5 Server.

Fortunately IBM does have a solution for a poor person like me: The IBM DEMOnet Sametime 7.5 Demonstration site.

After the creation of a user name and a password everybody can extensively test the features of the Web Conferencing interface as well as logging in via a standard Sametime Connect or the Lotus Notes integrated Sametime awareness client.

Be aware that this service might be terminated by IBM at any time without prior notice.