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Available from the IBM Redbooks site - "Building Composite Aplications in Lotus Expeditor V6.1"

"This redpaper covers Composite Applications for desktop solutions that require multiple types of applications to run in a Lotus Expeditor V6.1 collaboration environment by providing inter-communication between components. SOA Composite Applications deliver high levels of business services and this redpaper covers the architecture, available tools, component considerations, assembling, deploying and wiring components in Lotus Expeditor V6.1 composite applications.

Lotus Expeditor is a client platform for end-to-end smart client application solutions. Expeditor provides services to install and manage these applications and to allow end-users to easily launch and switch among these applications. Expeditor leverages Eclipse technology to provide a client solution that runs on multiple operating systems. The benefits of composite applications include reducing the total cost of ownership for client solutions through reusability of existing components and the sharing of these components across applications, migrating existing applications to run on the client platform until such time as a business deems it necessary to fully exploit the client platform, controlling access to applications based on roles assigned to end-users and improving the end-user experience by allowing composite applications components to easily communicate between them.

This redpaper is targeted to architects, developers and administrators who need to understand the implemented architecture to develop, assemble and deploy composite applications in Lotus Expeditor V6.1."

Expeditor is the new name given to the Workplace Client Technology rich client that was made available for Workplace 2.5+, and is used as the framework on which the new Notes 8 client ("Hannover") is based - it is now available as a separately packaged product for developers to build applications on.  As an unashamed fan of rich clients (I believe that web-based thin clients are great for administrators and developers, not for users), I think that developers should really look to Expeditor to provide a framework for Domino-based apps that gives the benefits of thin-client in terms of manageability, provisioning and ease of administration, whilst also providing a flexible, fast and pleasurable experience for end users.

This Redbook might provide a first step in understanding the impact of this technology on our development plans for the future...  It's good to see that good technical information is now being made available to the user and partner communities.

IBM Lotus Notes access for SAP solutions can provide even greater business value for companies using both Lotus Notes software and SAP enterprise systems. This feature lets you access SAP information and business processes in your familiar Lotus Notes messaging and collaborative environment, starting with Lotus Notes 7.0.1. The Lotus Notes access for SAP solutions feature builds on proven IBM and SAP integration technology that has been in market for eight years. The new capabilities extend this integration into calendars and scheduling, contact management, workflow processing and other common business tasks. This feature leverages Lotus Notes strengths in personal information and workflow management to complement SAP application
processes.

The audience for this Redpaper will be IT Architects, application developers and business leaders in an organization looking to integrate SAP business applications and workflow into their familiar, security-rich Lotus Notes collaboration client at no additional charge.

Details on the IBM Redbooks site...

Migrating from Microsoft Exchange2000/2003 to Lotus Notes and Domino 7
Published: September, 8, 2006 More details are available at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg247777.html

I've only had time to have a quick look, but the content and scope of the book looks perfect to assist with any Exchange-Domino migration.

For those that aren't aware, Redbooks are guides written by IBM's ITSO organisation, usually authored by a group of IBMers, IBM Business Partners and customers.  They are based on real-world scenarios and are developed as a result of practical exploration of the subject in IBM's test labs.  Often they are not perfect (the odd typo or spelling mistake is  a common ocurrance), but they do give a breadth and depth of information and real-world experience that is not found in regular product manuals.

Check out the Redbook site here...