hello
does anyone know if lotus is planning to release any native way to access lotus domino from a .NET programming language such as Jscript .NET or Delphi 7 or C#?
not really talking about soap, more about an equivalent to the lotus domino com toolkit or provision of a data provider for .NET (or both)
thanks
andrew
Subject: Stephen Walch may have something interesting for you
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Hope this helps…
Subject: RE: Stephen Walch may have something interesting for you
thanks for your response and its nice to see ISV’s taking the lead but I’m somewhat hoping that Lotus will be natively supporting what seems to be a fairly significant technology. does anyone know if lotus has made any statements about upcoming support for .NET?
Thanks
AS
Subject: RE: Stephen Walch may have something interesting for you
I believe that the official position (heard at Lotusphere) is that the .NET integration strategy is via XML Web Services. By adding web services support to Notes and Domino, you can integrate with anything, right? While there is certainly a lot of value in doing this, it is not a complete solution at all due to complexity, performance, security, etc.
This is why we created Proposion N2N (http://proposion.com) in the first place. By providing a true managed ADO.NET data provider that directly accesses Notes/Domino data and services, you can develop “the .NET way” and achieve maximum possible performance and robustness.
In fact, even if you decide to standardize on Web Services as an integration technology, using ASP.NET and Proposion N2N is the absolute fastest way we know of to implement a web service for Notes/Domino.
Subject: RE: Stephen Walch may have something interesting for you
.NET is a very broad term these days… Couldn’t you use the existing C++ or Java toolkits? Domino is already very open. Are you trying to build web browser applications, or perhaps native Windows?