Most disappointing version in 12 years

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Most disappointing version of designer and client in the 12 years I have been working with Lotus Notes/Domino.

Slow! Constant crashes.

I recently received this wonderful message opening a database in designer.

‘Collecting Backend Classes information’ has encountered a problem.

An internal error occurred during: “Collecting Backend Classes informatin”.

An internal error occurred during: "Collecting Backend Classes java.lang.NullPointerException.

This message tells me everything I need to know to resolve the problem.

My computer has finally rebooted and I can now begin working again, until the next crash, and like taxes and death, will happen.

And why do I have to log off lotus notes everytime I update a role using designer? I order to trigger the role update, I have to close Lotus Notes. I sometimes have to update roles 15 or my times when I am developing a database. Gets Old!

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Subject: Do you need assistance?

An internal error occurred during: "Collecting >Backend Classes java.lang.NullPointerException.

This message tells me everything I need to

know to resolve the problem.

Using that error message I found the following thread. It has a couple of workarounds/solutions.

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd85forum.nsf/0/9b7129c97573a591852576560053be6b?OpenDocument

If that does not resolve your issue on that can you open a PMR?

My computer has finally rebooted and I can

now begin working again, until the next

crash, and like taxes and death, will happen.

You should not have to reboot your machine to restart the notes client.

try doing an: nsd -kill

If that doesn’t work a batch file of the following can kill everything (NSD is cleaner).

@echo off

taskkill /F /FI “IMAGENAME eq nsd.exe”

taskkill /F /FI “IMAGENAME eq notes2.exe”

taskkill /F /FI “IMAGENAME eq nlnotes.exe”

taskkill /F /FI “IMAGENAME eq notes.exe”

taskkill /F /FI “IMAGENAME eq ntaskldr.EXE”

taskkill /F /FI “IMAGENAME eq soffice.exe”

taskkill /F /FI “IMAGENAME eq nnotesmm.exe”

And why do I have to log off lotus notes

everytime I update a role using designer?

You should not have to. Roles/ACL are cached while the database is open. So you should only have to close and reopen the database. If it is open in Designer though that would cache it.

From a development point of view, I would recommend have a second machine (or VM image) with a separate client for testing. This allows you to play with different users/roles without overly messing with your designer client.