Vert.x and Domino

A while ago I shared how to use vert.x with a Notes client, which ultimately let me put an Angular face on my inbox and inspired the CrossWorlds project.
I revisited vert.x which is now 3.2.1 and no longer beta. On a Domino Linux server (I don't have Windows) and on a Mac Notes client the JVM is 64 Bit, which makes the configuration easier (no -w32 switch, no download of an additional JVM). The obligatory HelloWorld verticle ran quite nicely with my manually. However it wouldn't run, when the Domino ran using a startup script.
The simple reason: to be able to access the Domino instance the vert.x verticle needs to run with the same user as the Domino server. su into the user doesn't do the trick - and of course you can't login into my server with the id that runs Domino. The solution was to turn to the expert and his outstanding Linux boot script. Using the /etc/sysconfig/rc*domino_config*\* file you can simply define the behavior of your Domino startup and shutdown experience. Mine looks like this (I use "domino" as my standard user, not "notes"):

rc_domino_config_domino

LOTUS=/opt/ibm/domino
DOMINO_DATA_PATH=/home/domino/notesdata
DOMINO_SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT=600
DOMINO_CONFIGURED="yes"
BROADCAST_SHUTDOWN_MESSAGE="yes"
DOMINO_REMOVE_TEMPFILES="yes"
DOMINO_POST_STARTUP_SCRIPT=/home/domino/scripts/launch_vertx
DOMINO_PRE_SHUTDOWN_SCRIPT=/home/domino/scripts/stop_vertx

I have installed vert.x using npm using the full stack. With node.js installed, all you need is sudo npm install vertx3-full. Of course there are more conservative ways to install, vert.x, this may be an exercise left to the reader. I didn't use any of the environment variables exposed by the standard boot script to keep it independent. The script itself is just a few lines:

launch_vertx

# !/bin/sh
# Starts the vert.x tasks that talks to Domino
DOMINO_HOME=/opt/ibm/domino/notes/latest/linux
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle
export VERTX_HOME=/usr/lib/node_modules/vertx3-full/vertx
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DOMINO_HOME
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DOMINO_HOME
export CLASSPATH=.:$DOMINO_HOME/jvm/lib/ext/Notes.jar:$CLASSPATH
export NOTES_ENV=SERVER
vertx start com.ibm.issc.verseu.VerseLauncher -cp /home/domino/scripts/verseu.jar --vertx-id domino

The shutdown script is short and sweet. Since I used an vertx-id, I can use that to shut down the verticle without knowing or caring for its startclass name:

stop_vertx

# !/bin/sh
# Stops the vert.x tasks that talks to Domino
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle
export VERTX_HOME=/usr/lib/node_modules/vertx3-full/vertx
vertx stop domino

Next step: write some actual code beyond "Hello World".
As usual YMMV