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Next version of Lotus Notes based on Eclipse ?
By Martin English | March 23, 2007
from O’Reilly ONJava Blog
Domino is one of those tools that isn’t hip, there are no groundbreaking Web 2.0 sites written in Domino, and as far as other Lotus products are concerned, people tend to have a visceral negative reaction whenever someone mentions Lotus Notes as an email platform. Regardless of your reaction to Notes, this colleague does manage to consistently produce revenue generating applications on Domino. Yesterday he sent me the following:
[Domino] has evidently entered public beta testing. Below is a link to the new features outline:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/notes8-new/
Interestingly, it appears that the Notes Client and Designer (the user UI and the IDE respectively) have been rebuilt from scratch as Java extensions on Eclipse. I didn’t see that coming.
Even though Lotus Notes has a reputation for being a something as an anachronism, lauching the new Lotus Notes client on the Eclipse platform is a big deal for the Eclipse platform as a foundation for end-user applications. Just when you least expected it, someone decides to ship a large client-side Java application.
From the DeveloperWorks article written by David DeJean:
The big news in Lotus Notes V8 is that the Notes V8 client encapsulates all the code that is Lotus Notes within the Eclipse environment. This move puts Lotus Notes on an open-source Java-based platform. Originally created as an integrated application development environment, its open, plug-in-based architecture has made Eclipse itself the foundation for rich client platform development. Lotus Notes V8 is built on Lotus Expeditor, IBM’s universal managed-client software, which, in turn, is built on Eclipse.
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