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Planning applications (XPages MindMap)

In a recent XPages workshop in Kuala Lumpur, the class brainstormed on the planning process for an XPages application. This is what we came up with. For every item on the list one could elaborate quite a bit, but putting that on the map would make it rather messy.

Enjoy

Posted by Stephan H Wissel on 18 April 2013 | Comments (a) | categories: XPages

Comments

posted by Patrick Kwinten on Thursday 18 April 2013 AD:
I would add 'big screens' to scope, I get more and more requests to develop apps for big screens nowadays.

You are skipping LotusScript for back-end?

May I conclude that security is not an item for you?

Otherwise a great map to demonstrate what an XPages project requires attention
posted by Stephan H. Wissel on Thursday 18 April 2013 AD:
Lotus-what? I didn't see any reference to LotusScript in the XPages documentation. I would challenge anybody who claims it is better to keep LotusScript in an XPages app than to cleanup and recast as Java library. If it is well written LotusScript it is a very easy exercise. If it is badly written it needs to go anyway.

I'll add the security considerations separately (we were discussing them under "participants")
posted by Tim Tripcony on Friday 19 April 2013 AD:
"If it is well written LotusScript it is a very easy exercise. If it is badly written it needs to go anyway."

That is perhaps the best summary of this truth I've yet seen.
posted by Patrick Kwinten on Friday 19 April 2013 AD:
so an XPages app does no longer need agents running scheduled in the background ? (e.g. archiving docs, workflow, etc).

I like "If it is badly written it needs to go anyway."

And that Red Pill plug is ofcourse shameless. I hope it works
posted by Stephan Wissel on Friday 19 April 2013 AD:
@Patrick: for scheduled stuff there is Dots, Quarz and agents in Java, so you really don't need LotusScript
posted by Nathan T. Freeman on Friday 19 April 2013 AD:
"...keep LotusScript in an XPages app than to cleanup and recast as Java library"

Sorry for the commercial, but Red Pill Development will convert your Lotusscript source code to the org.openntf.domino Java API for a flat rate of $1/line. I just want to stick that out there because people complain that moving a few thousand lines of Lotusscript to Java is too expensive. Well, now it's not. Just send it to me.
posted by Lee Chang on Wednesday 24 April 2013 AD:
We use ConceptDraw MINDMAP in our university classes in Kebangsaan Malaysia. I think it gives you better options for layout. Have you tried this software?
posted by Stephan Wissel on Wednesday 24 April 2013 AD:
@Lee: it doesn't run on Linux, so No. In a school context I'd rather see tools used that don't require purchases by students.
posted by Lee Chang on Wednesday 24 April 2013 AD:
@Stephan: I believe our school have purchased it. Some of the guys tried to install trial on Linux under Wine and it worked
posted by Russell Maher on Wednesday 24 April 2013 AD:
Pretty cool. Good representation. Thanks for sharing it.