Lotus Notes 8 Beta reception in Second Life

IBM is hosting a reception to celebrate the launch of Lotus Notes 8 Beta. The reception takes place in Second Life on May 2nd, 2007 at 9 AM EST and 9 PM EST in the Lotusphere region on IBM 9.

From the invite: “The Notes 8 Beta reception gives you a live virtual forum to meet birds-of-a-feather, Lotus Business Partners, and customers. Come tell us about what you think of Notes 8 and what you plan to do with it.

Perhaps we will meet? I am Per Laurasia in Second Life.

[Via Mary Beth Raven and Steve Castledine]

Hannover by Jeff Eisen

Jeff Eisen has posted a great technical introduction to the next major release of Lotus Notes (code name “Hannover”).

To summarize, here are the main points from the introduction:

  • Hannover refers to the Notes client. The Domino server that will be released with Hannover is code-named “Domino Next”.
  • Hannover will most certainly be known as Lotus Notes 8.0 when officially released.
  • Hannover is based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform – more precisely on a common platform titled Lotus Expeditor. The Lotus Expeditor platform is also being used for the new Lotus Sametime 7.5.
  • Being based on Eclipse means that Eclipse developers can build Notes applications
  • And finally, there will still be a “traditional” technology non-Eclipse version of the Notes client delivered as part of the Hannover release.

You have probably heard all of this before but it is new to me that the Hannover release will include a standard Notes client (i.e. not based on Eclipse).

My previous posts on Hannover:

Using Ajax to manipulate Lotus Notes documents

Joachim Dagerot has published an article on developerWorks on using AJAX to manipulate Lotus Notes documents. From the article introduction:

Giving users instant feedback instead of the time-consuming page reloads they’re used to is simple when you use Ajax. Discover how a view and an agent can help you build Ajax-driven applications and learn how to define an API for getting the client and the Domino server to collaborate.

If Joachim is in the mood for an update to the article I would like to see how to do this using dojo as the Javascript Toolkit for the AJAX calls – especially considering the latest on IBM and dojo 🙂

Update: Joachim is in the mood and is asking for ideas on what to focus on with regards to Domino and dojo.