If you have been using the Expeditor 6.1.2 toolkit with Notes 8.0.x you may be interested to know how to use the 6.1.2 toolkit with the 8.5 beta. For the most part, the instructions provided in IBM Developer are still correct. A couple minor adjustments may be necessary though.
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In the “Configurating the toolkit” section, the new path to use is c:\Notes\framework\rcp\eclipse (note the addition of rcp to the path)
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On your client services launch configuration, change to the plug-ins tab and make sure all of the plug-ins in the target platform are selected. Since the default list to be selected has changed, this will ensure you get all of the new components in 8.5.
I do get a validation error on launch, but if you click OK the client will start. The validation errors make me think you are not going to be able to launch DDE when launching form the toolkit. I did not confirm that though.
If things are not compiling as expected, select Window > Preferences > Plug-in Development > Target Platform, select the “Group plug-ins by location” checkbox, and make sure you have two directories included and everything in them is selected.
If you have not tried the toolkit, it is available for free download from http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/download/nochargesearch.jsp?q=Expeditor%20Toolkit%206.1.2