I am just want to confirm, if I developed an application using lotus domino designer, and people asked me what programming or platform do I run, what should be the right reference? Domino Designer? Lotus? Lotus Notes but they might think it as email application? Lotus Domino? Domino? or Notes? or Notes application?
Really appreciate any kind input.
Tq.
Subject: what platform is officially called for notes applications
This is an interesting question with multiple answers. In the early days, the answer would have been Lotus Notes (though the development client wasn’t named Designer until later). In the late 90s, the ubiquitous client strategy was adopted. The Domino Designer client can be used to develop applications for traditional Lotus Notes clients or other clients like web browsers. I guess you could consolidate the answer into Lotus Notes and Web-based clients (though Lotus Notes is also a web-capable client). The web clients could be IE7 or some other version of IE or Mozilla (e.g. firefox) running on a myriad of desktop/mobile platforms ranging from Linux-powered phones and Windows mobile devices to good old desktops. The fact that Domino Designer IDE lets you use multiple languages like formulas, LotusScript, Javascript, Java, C calls, etc… allows it to support multiple clients and not just Lotus Notes. Since Domino Designer uses databases to store these objects/languages, it does require that a developer create databases on a Domino server (or run locally on Notes client - rare these days). The database concept allows you to manage these objects in a secure, replicated object store vs. storing as files on a potentially unsecure network drive, etc.
Subject: what platform is officially called for notes applications
I’ve always just said Lotus Notes/Domino. No matter what you say, you’ll always come up against someone who will want a better explanation of what you’re using though, lol.