XPages, here I come
I am sitting at Heathrow airport, waiting for my flight back to Frankfurt after attending a three-day workshop on XPages at the IBM Innovation Centre in Hursley. The workshop was great and my head is full of new stuff and ideas. Thanks to Tim, Matt and Chris for also making it a very enjoyable and entertaining event. If you want to know what we did in the workshop, Mick has covered it in more detail.
Now that I've spent some time working with XPages I am even more thrilled by the potential they possess. Web development on Domino has been possible for more than 12 years now, but it's never been easy to develop really sexy web applications on Domino. I'm not saying developing XPages applications is a piece of cake, but now you can create a really cool Domino web application without bending over backwards.
The potential of XPages, however, is not only that many things that took hacks or workarounds are now only one checkbox away, but they are also very powerful because you can customize and compute nearly eveything.
I am very much looking forward to applying this to one of our applications which we will then demo at our Lotusphere Comes To You event taking place on February 17 2009.
I am expecting XPages to really take off next year and I hope that many customers will see their potential. Along with DAOS, DCT and the ID vault, they are in my opinion one of the main drivers for Domino 8.5 deployment.
