I've done a little bit of Domino work.  If you're asking whether it's
possible and how to do it, I can address that question.

Domino ships with a Servlet runner, and exposes a Java API to the server's
Domino database instance.  You could implement a Servlet that runs on the
Domino server and satisfies DAV requests by calling down to the wrapper API.

This will require your Domino admin to turn on the HTTP and Servlet Tasks.
(I don't think either is enabled by default.)

Note that any solution using that sort of design won't seamlessly work with
clustered Domino servers.  For that you'll probably need to look into
Domino's CORBA support -- it depends on your requirements.

The Java API Lotus provides isn't terribly complicated.  You just have to
wrap your head around Lotus' terminology.  It's less like an RDBMS and more
like a weird combination of a document management system and a spreadsheet.

If you haven't checked it out already, be sure to visit Notes.net, a site
maintained by Iris, the company that actually develops Domino/Notes:

http://www.notes.net/

Download the docs for the Java/CORBA Toolkit 2.1.  You'll probably also be
interested in the Domino 5 Adminstration Help:

http://doc.notes.net/domino_notes/5.0.3/help5_admin.nsf

Check out "The Domino Web Server" under "Web and News Servers."  There's a
section on managing Java Servlets.


Shawn C. Dodd
AGEA Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: Remy Maucherat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 12:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Lotus Domino as a Slide Store (Unformatted!)

> Firstly, my company would be very interested in implementing slide using
> Lotus Domino as the Store. We have clients with disparate technologies
> that want to adopt a content management system and Slide would be ideal.
> However, three of our major clients use Lotus Domino as well as other
> technologies already supported by Slide.

> Is anyone already looking into this as a proposition or if not, is there
> anyone else out there that would like to collaborate on such a project?

I'm not aware of anyone working on a Domino store. I don't know anything
about Domino or Notes, so I'm afraid I don't have many ideas on the best way
to implement it.

> Secondly, is there any documentation, no matter how rough, with
> guidelines for implementing the mandatory and optional Interfaces
> required for a Slide Store?

All the documentation is available on the website, and we can probably
provide some additional help.

Remy

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