Migrating legacy applications with XPages without using any third party tools can be hard. Your code that was built and maintained over the years should be reused and ported to a current XPages environment. Oliver Busse will show you how to benefit from the possibilities of using Java in XPages to reproduce the functionality you already have and extend it to the next level, including: -User profiles: create, use, and maintain -Application profiles: reinvented -Getting user and environment information: made easy and smart -Transformation of the full-text search to a "facetted search" all over your application(s)

1. Transformations: Smart Application Migration to XPages
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15. Your Presenter Today:
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Oliver Busse
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@zeromancer1972

16. Transformations
Smart Application Migration
A presentation of Oliver Busse @ Engage.UG in March 2015
Broadcasted in the TLCC & Teamstudio Webinar April 21, 2015

17. Agenda
•About me
•Overview
•Preamble
•Migrate database and user profiles
• Legacy profile documents vs. Java Beans
• Value lists made available over the whole application
•User and environment information
• What can a user see and use?
•Extending Fulltext search to a facetted search
• Filtering your data with meta tags

18. Oliver Busse
• „Bleeding Yellow“ since 2000
• Working for We4IT Group
• OpenNTF Board Member
• IBM Champion for ICS in 2015
• @zeromancer1972
• www.oliverbusse.com
www.we4it.com

19. Overview
•What‘s this?
• Transforming & re-using commonly used legacy patterns in
XPages
• Don‘t fear Java 
• Avoid @Formulas in SSJS
• Ideas for best practices
•What‘s it not?
• An XPages Introduction
• A Java beginner‘s guide
• A complete application migration strategy

20. Preamble
•Why not to use SSJS „excessively“?
• SSJS is interpreted at runtime
• SSJS is compiled at runtime (every time you call it!)
• Compiled SSJS is hard to debug while executed

21. 6#engageug
Migrating database and user profiles

22. What we find in legacy apps: profile documents
Disadvantages
• You cannot see them without
using tools
• You can edit and create them
only programmatically
• Sometimes replication issues
• Unwanted Caching ;-)
Advantages
• Quick access without using
lookup views
• Caching

23. What we missed in many cases
DatabaseScript != Global Declarations
Encapsuled, no access from outside
(except Database Events)

24. Performance-Killer
Numerous usage of those formulas slow down the app
one of many...

25. Transformation
Item1=Values1
Item2=Values2
Item3=Values3
...
NotesDocument
Key1=ValueMap1
Key2=ValueMap2
Key3=ValueMap3
...
HashMap
NSF-based, view lookup Memory-based, direct access

26. Ingredients
•Transformation of profile documents to „standard“
documents
1. Create a corresponding lookup view
2. Optional: corresponding forms for maintenance
3. Create the Java Bean classes
4. Define those Bean classes in faces-config.xml

27. Preparation: Lookup Views
•Key for Database Profiles = dbprofile
•Key for User Profiles = Canonical User Name
•Key for Value Lists = free but unique

28. Preparation: Java Beans
• 3 Classes:
• DatabaseProfileBean
• AppConfigBean
• UserProfileBean
• The DatabaseProfileBean initializes the document if
it doesn‘t exist
• The UserProfileBean initializes the document when
the user saves it for the first time

29. faces-config.xml
<faces-config>
<!-- Database Profile Bean -->
<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>dbprofile</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>com.icsug.DatabaseProfileBean
</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>application</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>
<!-- User Profile Bean -->
<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>userprofile</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>com.icsug.UserProfileBean
</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>
<!-- Application Configuration -->
<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>application</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>com.icsug.AppConfigBean
</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>application</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>
</faces-config>

30. Digression: Bean Scopes & Lifecycles
•Request
• Lives beginning with the request to creation of the response
•View
• Within a page until changing the page, even during partial
refreshes
•Session
• Per user session
•Application
• During the life time of th application (after 30 minutes it is
dropped by default)

31. DEMO

32. 17#engageug
User and Environment Information

33. User and Environment Information
Name variations
Access Level
ACL Options notes.ini variables
Environment
Bean

34. faces-config.xml: EnvironmentBean
19#engageug
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-config>
<!-- Environment Bean -->
<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>env</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>com.icsug.EnvironmentBean
</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>view</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>
</faces-config>

35. Example: Username Variations
<p>
<xp:label
value="#{javascript:env.userName}"
id="label1">
</xp:label>
</p>
<p>
<xp:label
value="#{javascript:env.commonUserName}"
id="label2">
</xp:label>
</p>
<p>
<xp:label
value="#{javascript:env.abbreviatedUserName}"
id="label3">
</xp:label>
</p>

36. Example: ACL Options
The delete button is only visible if
the user can delete documents

37. Even in themes!
22#engageug
<theme
extends="flatly"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="platform:/plugin/com.ibm.designer.domino.style
kits/schema/stylekit.xsd">
<!--
display a submit type button only if user can create documents via ACL
-->
<control>
<name>Button.Submit</name>
<property
type="boolean">
<name>rendered</name>
<value>#{env.createDocuments}</value>
</property>
</control>
</theme>

38. DEMO

39. 24#engageug
Extending Fulltext-Search to a Facetted Search

40. Facetted Search
„Faceted search, also called faceted navigation or faceted browsing,
is a technique for accessing information organized according to a
faceted classification system, allowing users to explore a collection of
information by applying multiple filters.“
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_search

41. Facetted Search

42. „Well-known“ Examples
amazing.com cyberharbor
muse

43. Facetted Search with Domino?
1. Fulltext Search
2. Filtering result from extra meta data
1. Meta data search with facet selection
2. Fulltext Search in results

44. FacettedSearchBean (Session scoped)
FacetsSearch Term
FacettedSearch
Bean
DocumentCollection
(ArrayList<SearchResultEntry>)

45. 30#engageug
DEMO

46. Facetted Search: Outlook & Alternatives
•Using OpenNTF API‘s Graph-DB functions
•Using a 3rd party Graph-DB like Apache Solr
31#engageug

47. Want to get the DEMO?
Grab it from my Bitbucket repo (also contains an NTF):
https://bitbucket.org/zeromancer1972/icsug-2015-demo
It uses the following plugins available on OpenNTF:
XPages Extension Library (9.0.1.07+):
http://extlib.openntf.org/
Bootstrap 4 Xpages:
http://www.openntf.org/main.nsf/project.xsp?r=project/Bootstrap4XPages
OpenNTF Domino API:
http://www.openntf.org/main.nsf/project.xsp?r=project/OpenNTF%20Domino%20
API
32#engageug

48. Other Resources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_search
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
https://www.focul.net/focul-best-practice-faceted-filtering-xpages-using-java-beans/

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