Beyond The Yellow Bubble

It is still early days in my Xpages learning but one thing has already become very clear.  Xpages development is crying out for a framework even more so than LotusScript. It is not yet clear to me how much of my time moving forward is going to be spent doing Xpages development, but the extend to which I do I just know a lot of my time is going to be consumed collecting code from all over the place and consolidating it and combining it with my own code in a way that will allow me to continue to do Rapid Application Development.

It is now clear to me that I need two separate framework.  The existing one that is OOP LS based and will support all non XPage development and a separate one that will focus almost exclusively on Xpages and SSJS (and possbly Java and even LS at a later stage).  My goal is to at least have a beta posted on OpenNTF sometime soo after 8.5.1 is released.

The current .Domino Framework proect is likely to be extended but will focus on non-XPages development.  How much will depend on how much non-Xpages development gets done in the future.

I have now created a community on bleedyellow.com.  Anyone who would like to get involved in any way is encourage to join this community (it is moderated but I have super low standards on membership -- If you drink beer or even if you write some form of Notes code your are a shoe in to be accepted).  Contributions can include ideas, enhancement requests, code contributions, rolling up your sleeves and building the code, or just telling us what we are doing wrong.