APPLICATION DESIGN

Overview -- applications and databases
A major new enhancement in IBM® Lotus® Notes® 8 is the support for composite applications, a key element within IBM's service oriented architecture (SOA) and contextual collaboration strategy. Using IBM® Lotus® Domino(TM) Designer, developers can extend Notes applications to be Notes components in composite applications. A composite application can include any combination of Notes components or Eclipse components. The ability to combine multiple technologies into a single application provides significant business value: It enables companies to protect and extend their existing assets with increasing degrees of flexibility, and to respond quickly and cost effectively to their emerging business requirements, with applications that are significantly easier to assemble than alternative application development environments.

There are also new capabilities:


Check out What's new in this Designer Release; it provides quick links to topics that define the new features in Lotus Domino Designer.

Applications

Domino applications enable people to share, collect, track, and organize information, using Lotus Notes® or the Web. Using Lotus Domino Designer, developers can create applications to meet a variety of business needs, including:


Additionally, Lotus Domino Designer can create Lotus Notes components to be used in a larger composite application.

Databases

All Notes applications contain one or more databases. You create a database to use as the container for the data, logic, and design elements in your application. Design elements include:


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