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 I wanted to make this work for a very long time, but there were always some parts missing, so I could not get the full process running. Finally, the wait is over. The following paragraphs describe a way to build Notes/Domino apps automatically on a Jenkins server, allowing parallel builds and all "normal" continuous-integration behavior, without having to think too much about Domino specifics. The Problem Until now, I was running my automated builds of Domino apps using Jenkins in two ways: The official headless-designer way, where you need to pass special commands to Domino Designer and hope for the best as the Designer sometimes gets stuck. I have this wrapped inside a Jenkins pipeline, so I have some control and can e.g. avoid parallel builds by using locks on Jenkins, but still, sometimes it just dies. Some of my headless builds run for more than 30 minutes, so it's really hard to quickly spot an issue without actually connecting to the machi...

Last week I had a session at Sutol conference about automation for developers. It covered several samples, where I started with Reat.js front-end app, stored it in Domino nsf database and later did also complete build on Jenkins server with Selenium tests. It was a lot of fun to put this together and even more fun, as always, was to meet all those great people from ICS (or should I call it Watson Workplace now?) community. Sutol 2016 - Automation is developer's friend from mpradny Repository that I used for the demo is at Bitbucket.org -  https://bitbucket.org/pradnik/todoapp_full/branch/develop  . If you want to try it, you need to adjust some hardcoded values as I didn't make this build parameterized and it also depends on my Jenkins configuration. Job itself that I used was simple Pipeline from SCM, just with repo address. Let me know if you want to try it and get stuck. Many thanks to all sponsors,  organizers and attendees, who made SUTOL 2016 grea...

Last month I had opportunity to speak at ICS.UG user group together with Martin Jinoch. It was great event as I mentioned in previous post. Our slides are available on ICS.UG session list, but I also want to publish demo video and GIT repository that I used for the demo. I wanted to do some cleanup first, but as time didn't permit me to do so, I publish it just as it was for the conference. It really just a proof-of-concept that put together pieces that I would use separately otherwise. Slides: Video: I had to move mymouse all the time to get correct recording, so please ignore it. It's no voodoo.  Repository: https://bitbucket.org/pradnik/ics.ug-demo  Next plans are to all of this on current project that also involves Open NTF Domino API and XPages Scaffolding, which probably will make some parts more complicated.   

It's been long since I wrote my last post. For part of that period I completely left world of Domino and XPages. During that time also many interesting XPages technologies and project appeared or got more popular. One of them is build automation using Maven, so my plan for holidays was to check recent posts from  Christian  and  Jesse  about mavenization of XPages libraries. Before I got to them, a friend of mine called with a request for PDF creation on Domino. It was not for an XPages app, but anyway it seemed like a good fit for POI4XPages, which could be built by Maven. I agreed to create small demo for him. Main goal was to generate an order document which also contains table of items. It will be called by a button on classic notes form, so the plan was to use  URLOpen to download it from the server. Problem that comes with this is that users won't be authenticated, so custom security and session as signer is needed. I had some prior experience with POI...