XPages2Eclipse is a language extension for XPages-development within the Lotus Notes Client
Update: As of December 2013 the product XPages2Eclipse is available for free, licensed under Apache 2.0 at OpenNTF. Mindoo GmbH continues to offer commercial support contracts and trainings for the toolkit.
Find out how XPages2Eclipse simplifies the development of XPages-applications for the IBM Lotus Notes Client considerably. With the help of this extensive toolkit you will be able to develop applications, which exhaust the full potential of the local client.
XPages is the new technology of the hour for the notes/domino platform. It makes possible the development of modern and attractive applications in an up-to-date integrated development environment - the Domino Designer.
For newcomers it is often difficult to master the XPages technology due to its extensive set of features - the change from classical Notes development with LotusScript is not to be accomplished within a couple of days.
In addition to getting familiar with the usual Web standards like HTML, CSS and JavaScript, one also has to get to know the ui-library Dojo, as well as IBM specific additions like server side JavaScript (SSJS), themes or components from the Domino Extension Library.
Yet, the result at the end of this steep learning curve is quite impressive:
dynamic web user interfaces that can join data of multiple Lotus Notes databases or other data sources, if needed, or even an application for mobile devices – no traces left of the antiquated user interfaces that used to be created with classic Lotus Notes development.
Thanks to the Lotus Notes Standard Client XPages applications can also be used locally and even offline.