Help me!I want to build a windows application as a small client,gather all mail and messages for one user,I DO NOT want the application use the user’s local ID file to login server,and I DO NOT want the user’s computer to install a Notes client.
Can this application login server by URL, without local ID file and Local Notes client?
Who can tell me how can I do and What I need?
Thanks!
Subject: I need help:About a Domino API coding.
There are several possibilities to do what you want. I’ll list a couple and others might contribute with ideas:
Java App.:
Use the Java API to access the server. You can use NCSO.jar/Notes.jar which contains APIs for this, or use HTTP requests to access the databases using fx. ?ReadViewEntries.
Windows (Visual Basic, C, C++, C#, …) App.:
You can use the Domino COM object to acces the server (but you might need the ID-file for this), or you can do HTTP requests to access the databases using fx. ?ReadViewEntries.
Hope this can help you just a little bit.
Subject: RE: I need help:About a Domino API coding.
Hi,John,thank you for your help!I’ll try to build a Java application.
I have some additional question to ask you.
In your reply above you said that I can “do HTTP request using fx.ReadViewEntries”.
I don’t completely understand this.I know URL like “http://svrname/dbname/elementname?ReadViewEntries” show me a XML in browser,but how can I use this to help myself?
Thanks!
Subject: RE: I need help:About a Domino API coding.
Using the ?readviewentries will give you an XML output from the view, you sohuld them be able to parse this easily and present it back to your user in your Java applet. (But as a side - why not use Domino Web Access?)
Subject: John,I forgot something…
I have tried Domino toolkit for COM,I found that the nlsxbe.dll in domino folder seems to be different to the one in notes folder?
And another strange problem:the password confirm dialog box is a big black window like the windows cmd window,and it can accept my password,could you tell me how to do?
I’ll try Java application. Thank you.
Subject: If ReadViewEntries is not powerful enough, you might consider deploying a web service
Of course, this means adding things to your server. Possibly WebSphere or Apache if you like Java.
If you have .NET skills in house, you may want to do what many of our customers do: Deploy ASP.NET and Proposion N2N (http://www.proposion.com) on your Domino server. This is probably the easiest way to create a web service for Domino and gives you the fastest and most scalable results.