Notes "Hannover" provisioning
by Volker Weber
This was one of the enlightening slides of Chip Carter's presentation. It shows what Thomas Gumz is working on: Making Domino an Eclipse update site. You see two Notes databases that currently enable a Domino 7 (!) server to provision a Hannover client. One holds the descriptions of composite applications, the other contains the components themselves. The update manager in the client polls for new features or layouts in composite.nsf. A Notes NRPC handler in the client then makes it possible to pull new or updated components from the Domino server without HTTP support.
I apologize for the bad picture but I did not bring a real camera.
Comments
Great!
I was hoping that they would do it this way. My nightmare was that they would try to sell workplace for this task....
Interesting; the Domino Next sessions at Lotusphere talked about enabling provisioning in Domino; good to see the hows!
vowe, do you know whether provisioning will work for that "Notes Classic" version* of Hannover?
(* of which I still only read in your c't article of the Lotusphere and in your Hannover and Citrix post lately. I must have completely missed its announcement, always thought Eclipse was the one and only way to go. Are there official references to it?)
There are official references to it, but the bulk of the project work is going into the Eclipse-based client. I've mentioned it a few times on my blog, it was mentioned in the Notes/Domino & beyond session at Lotusphere, and a few other places.
Do I have to use NRPC? Or can I choose bt. HTTP and NRPC? I really like the idea of provisioning the Notes Client with Domino.
And what about the Sametime Client? It's eclipse based too. Would be great to maintain the ST Client with Domino as provisioning Server.
Tobias, the slide answers your question about HTTP support, doesn't it? And the Sametime client will be provisioned from the Sametime server.
Ok. There is an 'OR' bt. Domino and HTTP-Server.
And would Domino qualify as an HTTP server?
Can't wait to get my hands on the Hannover Linux client. If IBM comes up to half of my expectations, Hannover will -in my humble opinon- gain a revolutionary success in the groupware market.
