Jump right into XPages development by learning to create an XPage in just 15 minutes. Then, to prepare for the sessions that follow, get a guided tour of the underlying architecture of XPages design. You’ll get a complete orientation to XPages, while you:

This session explores Domino data from the context of a standard Notes application and maps it to the construct of an XPage. Dive into the controls used in working with data to navigate and manage data. From this session, you will be able to:

In this lab you will create your first XPage application. You will create two XPages. In the first one you will create an XPage to display documents from a view, create a link in the View column to load the specified document and return to the view. In the second you will create an XPage to display the selected documents from the view and navigate back to the View XPage.
 

Creating the “right” view has always been a very personal endeavor as each user of an application may have different requirements or preferences concerning the data to display, and many conditions can affect requirements. XPages makes it easy to sort and display data based on specific conditions and/or choices made by users. Gain the concepts and skills you need to give your users the data they require as you:

Managing events for document control, view navigation, and communication between objects is key to exploiting the power of XPages. Discover how to work with controls and events to provide document and view operations with all the workflow functionality of a standard Notes application:

This lab is a step by step guide to using custom controls, simple actions and scoped variables to finalize an XPages application. Once you have completed this lab, you will have built a fully functional XPage application that quickly reproduces traditional Domino functionality and then goes beyond what standard Domino development can do.
 

XPages provides much more effective controls for creating a consistent UI look and feel than you can achieve with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the standard used in Domino applications for many years. In this session, learn to create good looking XPages with the style properties available for XPages controls. In this session, gain an understanding of how XPages are rendered in the browser and learn how to:

Gone are the days of inconsistencies in the look and feel of your Domino applications. See how the implementation of themes in XPages goes well beyond standard Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) pages and provides more granular control over all of the XML properties of an XPage. In this session, you will develop an understanding of XPages themes and learn how to:

This lab starts with an existing Domino application and takes you through enabling the application to use XPage Themes for a more professional look. The next step in this lab will be to create and use style sheet resources and CSS to fully customize the look and feel of the XPages application. By extending standard themes, you will experience the power and speed of CSS + Themes + XPages, which is a development strategy that you can quickly put to use in your own environment.
 

Explore the events and options where client-side JavaScript (CSJS) can be used in an XPage architecture. All of the client-side libraries will be reviewed so you’ll know what options are available out of the box for coding CSJS in your XPage applications.

Running server side JavaScript (SSJS) allows developers to take the browser out of the equation, which simplifies coding to many platforms. This session covers best practices for using SSJS and explores all of the events and opportunities for using SSJS in an XPage architecture. In this session, you will learn to:

This lab will allow participants to add client-side and server-side JavaScript to their XPage designs for performing computations and validating input controls. Code will be added to events and called from different client- and server-side libraries.
 

Using JavaScript toolkits can reduce the amount of time it takes you to build superb XPage applications. In this session, learn how to use built-in Dojo elements and implement the jQuery Library and jQuery plugins to quickly enhance an XPages application UI, respond to user actions, and to add animation effects.

You don’t have to be a Java programmer to develop XPages, but the key to providing rich functionality with XPages is understanding the power of Java to get things done in your application’s back end and knowing how to access that power with server-side JavaScript. In this session, discover how to:

In this lab, learn how to combine Dojo, jQuery, and Java with XPages to create a data reporting solution. Application users will be required to provide valid input in an XPage which will then be used to produce reports as either Excel or PDF files. This hands-on experience with XPages + Java will show just how easy it is to create application functionality far beyond that of traditional Domino solutions.
 

Find out how to take your XPages beyond the basic implementation and learn best practices and advanced techniques for globalizing XPages applications, dealing with external data imports, filtering data, and controlling data handling.

In this wrap up session, find out how to make the most of what you’ve learned and add to your expanding set of development options with a tour of the various projects on OpenNTF and the tools that have been created there. See how to take advantage of new features in 8.5.2 like the Single Copy XPage design feature and the XPages Extensibility API to expand your toolset even further: