Domino Development - Back to Basics - Overview

XPages development uses well established standards: JSF, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JSON, HTTP and XML.
However it is different from other web development environments:

• It is highly integrated. database, application and web tier come in one dense package. If your server is up Domino is good to go (no JDBC database timeout)
• The native database is NoSQL (actually the mother-of-all-noSQL), a document oriented store
• It is designed for distributed, partially connected operation
• Code can run on a server or on a client
• Domino provides build in directory and messaging capabilities
• It provides a hierarchical, declarative security model

To ease new developers into "how Notes is different" I will publish a series of articles, that focus on the big picture. They will make it easier to avoid " coding against the grain" and to appreciate the power of Domino. The plan so far:

1. The NSF
2. Forms and Documents
3. Not all Documents are created equally
4. Domino views are different
5. Finding data - Collections and Search
6. Better save than sorry - Security
7. Map Reduce Domino Style

Stay tuned