LepoLand - A Blog by Alan Lepofsky

While my blog is primarily focused on helping end-users, it does not hurt to include the occasional developer related content as well.  Web Services are going to be one of the most powerful new features of Domino 7, enabling the data stored in Domino applications to be accessed by more people in more ways than ever before.

IBM developerWorks has published the following tutorial to help you learn about this new feature:

Quickly create Domino Web services: New Web services function in Domino 7 speeds development

This tutorial shows you how to use the new Web services design element in IBM Lotus Domino 7 for rapid creation of Web services in the LotusScript and Java programming languages. The tutorial walks you through examples of a business scenario involving a fictitious software company. The examples use a Web service that allows multiple clients to search a Domino Directory database. Using IBM Lotus Domino Designer, you learn how to develop a native Domino Web service and test the newly created service from a LotusScript agent and a Java application.

In addition to the IBM developerWorks tutorial above, IBM Business Partners Bob Balaban and Karen Hobert ran a lab at Lotusphere 2005 on Domino 7's web services.   They have made the content available for download at: {link}    Thank you Bob and Karen.

I hope combined these two sources start to show you some of the things that are going to be possible with Domino 7.  As I've said before, Domino is one of the most fantastic application development platforms available.  I hope your company is taking full advantage of Domino today, and plans to long into the future.