I used this presentation to introduce XPages to a development team not already familiar with XPages. I demoed XPages in Domino Designer live along with going through the presentation. Please see this blog post for details about the presentation: http://per.lausten.dk/blog/2011/01/presentation-my-view-on-xpages.html

2. XPages is a rapid web and mobile application development platform. It allows IBM Lotus Notes data to be displayed to browser clients on all platforms. The programming model is based on standards and common web development skills like JavaScript , Ajax , the Dojo Toolkit, Server-side JavaScript , JavaServer Faces and it leverages IBM Lotus Domino functionality like the Document-oriented database. XPages applications are hosted by IBM Lotus Domino, IBM's Rapid application development platform, which has sold more than 145 million licenses. Source: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/XPages What is XPages?

4. Client: Lotus Notes 8.5.2+ with Domino Designer

5. Developer team: modern web skills

7. Integration with Notes/Domino (views, documents, Formula language)

8. Scoped variables, partial updates, Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)

9. Flexibility and control of output

10. Seperation of data and UI (web enabling)

11. Server Side JavaScript with support for Domino

12. Java, if you want to

13. XPages Extension Library

14. Existing backend Lotusscript logic (in e.g. script libraries) can be reused by calling a Lotusscript agent that uses this logic. The agent is called from XPages using Agent.runWithDocumentContext(doc)

16. Trial and error – and lack of good documentation

17. Existing frontend Lotusscript logic must be migrated to Server Side JavaScript

18. XPages is case sensitive

20. Custom Controls

21. Style Sheets

22. Themes

24. Seperation of data and UI (web enabling)

26. Ajax

27. Scoped variables: applicationScope, sessionScope, requestScope, and viewScope

29. XPage for pure HTML – just insert your HTML body in the Source view

30. XPage with full control of HTML (using afterRenderResponse)

32. Example server side JavaScript code:

33. var doc:NotesDocument = database.createDocument(); doc.replaceItemValue("form", "demo2"); doc.replaceItemValue("demo2_subject", @UserName() + " - " + @Now()); doc.save();

34. An example using Formula language:

35. var demoSubject = @DbLookup(@DbName(), "demo2", key, "demo2_subject" );

36. Sample NotesDocument JavaScript code: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf/dx/NotesDocument_sample_JavaScript_code_for_XPages

38. xpages.tv

39. xpages101.net

40. planetlotus.org

41. openntf.org

42. Book: “ Mastering XPages: A Step-by-Step Guide to XPages Application Development and the XSP Language ”

43. White paper on Lotus Domino as a rapid application development platform: http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/ibm.com-whitepaper-on-domino-as-a-rapid-application-development-platform

44. ... and more!