Transcript Web Services In Action

Web Services In Action
Mike Miller
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Western National
Insurance Group
About Me
Have had a fondness for Notes since R4.5;
started developing at R5.
Notes has provided me a great environment to
learn about technology and connected me to
a great community.
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About Western
We use Notes for mail and applications
Environment: R7.0.2 on iSeries and Win32
Biggest Notes application is our
Agency Management System (ARM)
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About ARM
Used as front-end for tracking agencies and
agents.
Is interfaced to our policy management
system and web portal through
DECS, ODBC (LS:DO & LSX:LC)
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CSC
New policy and claims administration system
and web portal.
Opportunity to now use web services to
interface systems.
Helps us in our hybrid environment.
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Web Services in Notes
Standardized way to connect systems using http and
XML
ND8 will have service provider and service requestor
capabilities
Available as a service provider starting in R7; can
use LotusScript
No official support as a service provider or as a
service requestor in R6
However…
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Java to the rescue…
Gives you access to classes that can connect
to network resources and work with XML
With the right tools (Eclipse) working with
Java is not extremely difficult
If you know LotusScript, all the back end
objects are the same!
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Three Takeaways
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Web services adds value to your
Notes/Domino investment
Don’t be afraid to start learning Java,
even if ND8 will make web services easier
(Learning Java will make you better at LotusScript)
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Eclipse is a valuable tool for productive
programming in Java
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