In this scenario, i've experienced some problems with UTF-8 charset in strings. In 6.5 environment everithing works fine.

This is my code in a Java agent:

org.w3c.dom.Document docXML = attachSegnatura.parseXML(false);
XSLTResultTarget out = new XSLTResultTarget();
out.setFileName(path + "SegnaturaRT.xml");
attachSegnatura.transformXML(xsl, out);
DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
parser.parse(path + "SegnaturaRT.xml");
org.w3c.dom.Document docRT = ((DOMParser)parser).getDocument();

tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
StreamSource xslSS = new StreamSource(pathFile+"Segnatura.xsl");
StreamSource xslRT= new StreamSource(pathFile + "Segnatura.xml");
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(pathFile + "SegnaturaRT.xml");
transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(xslSS);
transformer.transform(xslRT, new StreamResult(fos));
transformer.reset();
fos.close();
DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
docRT = dBuilder.parse(new File(pathFile + "SegnaturaRT.xml"));

Anybody experienced something like this?

I'm porting servlet code running on 6.5 Domino Server in XPages.

Servlet comunicate with Domino through DIIOP, and need DIIOP to istantiate Session object:

lotus.Domino.session = NotesFactory.createSession(server,login, password);

Thanks to Karsten Lehmann for its great library:

http://www.mindoo.com/web/blog.nsf/dx/18.07.2009191738KLENAL.htm?opendocument&comments

Now i can initialize a session using:

lotus.Domino.session = DominoAccess.getCurrentSession();

No more DIIOP needed!!

Working with the Lotus Notes Client I came across the necessity of working with graphs.
The opportunities were:

• Integrate with third-party products, which will require installation on your PC ( RMCHART (http://www.brothersoft.com/rmchart-35638.html) is a very good library);

• Using Microsoft Excel, if it is installed on your PC, creating a template that is then filled with data and processes them in a chart
  

Then I thought, why not use Google Charts?

So I did a test, that list step by step.

1. In the form that contains my data to process I created a pass-thru <computedvalue> containing the URL of Google (ie "http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=s:Uf9a&chs=250x100&chl=January|February|March|April")
2. I opened the document with the form above, and I noticed a picture with a "red cross"
3. Right click on the picture I noticed the option "Show images", selecting the image appears correctly

Everything ok, but how to avoid each time you select "Show images"?

If you go on the properties of the document you will notice that there is a field "$DelayedImages" to 1, when the red cross is shown on the image
However if you have selected the option "Show Images" has a field  "$DelayedImagesOK" set to "ok".
So, in document form, i've created a computed field "$DelayedImagesOK" with value" ok "and you're done!

This is the result

There is not to boast, but perhaps the development team RedTurtle found a bug in the engine of XPages 8.5.2.

It's happened during the development of an application where we had to connect a datasource to a Xpage. It appears that, in case you have two forms with the same alias, the list of available fields always refer to the first of two forms that is found in the list (we know, it's a very bad practice assigning same aliases to different forms, but we inherit this scenario from someone else...)

Only renaming the alias you obtain the right binding of the fields, even if the engine allows you to refer to the two blur.

By submitting the matter to two of the leading experts on the subject, Bob Balfe and John Mackey, we had confirmation that the problem exists.

UI Architect for IBM Workplace Designer has been alerted and will investigate the problem.

You will be posted ...

This is done instead of putting multiple entries in a single field,  but the problem comes from the fact that the notes mail document includes a 'Received' field for every server it has passed. 

Lotus Notes give us a documented method that gets the text values of the Received items in a mail document.

stringArray = notesDocument.GetReceivedItemText( )

But sometimes it doesn't work...

Agent message: Received Item is not standard format - access with GetItemValue

Thanks to Raymond Neeves for his great function

After calling this, you can simply access all values of Received field with

Forall v In doc.Received
    msgbox v
End Forall

If IdeaJam asks the community new ideas for improving Lotus Notes, RedTurtle Technology answer! 

Here is what was proposed by us recently.

Many thanks to John Mackey:

http://www.jmackey.net/groupwareinc/johnblog/johnblog.nsf/d6plinks/GROC-7G9GT4

and to Daniele Vistalli http://factor-y.com for this idea, for their help and the great powers.

Since Domino 8.5 is Eclipse based, you can switch to the Java perspective and add Java code to your project. The nsf database is the project.  (If you haven't done this yet, it is interesting to switch perspectives and look around at the structure and the code.)  By switching to the Java perspective, you open up your code to the importing or referencing of Java libraries, or the creation of your own classes.

Now we investigate how to create PDF using XPages. This tutorial summarize John's article, with some other things that you have to pay attention to.

Step by step.....

package mypackage;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
/**
* First iText example: Hello World.
*/
public class Test {
      public static void createPdf(String filename) throws Exception {	
       try {
            Document document = new Document();
            PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(filename));
            document.open();
            document.add(new Paragraph("Hello World!"));
            document.close();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
     }
}

• select the project and then select Project->Properties from the menu (or right click)
• select the Java Build Path and click on Add Folder button.  Select the new source folder.  Click OK.
• In WebContent\WEB-INF add the folder called lib
• Right-click on it and select Import->File System->Browse and select itext jar (i.e iText-5.0.2.jar)
• import itext jar (i.e iText-5.0.2.jar) in your Java Build Path:  Project->Properties->Java Build Path->Libraries->Add Jar and select jar from WebContent\WEB-INF
• Note: you have to deploy jar in your server, in data\domino\java and append this line in notes.ini, JavaUserClasses variable

JavaUserClasses=......;C:\Programmi\IBM\Lotus\Domino\data\domino\java\iText-5.0.2.jar

this will not cause security problem when you call iText methods to generate PDF

function create(){ 
        mypackage.Test.createPdf("hello.pdf");
}

create();

That's all!

Sometimes, for some reason, you have to do it. I'm talking about the use of System.setProperty() method within a java agent. If you don't pay attention it's easy to get a null pointer as result. Infact I got it. 

After a quick search I found out a way to solve the issue:

I will use "jna.library.path" as example.

First of all add the following line in "java.policy" file (in the "jvm\lib\security" folder below the Domino program folder).

permission java.util.PropertyPermission "jna.library.path", "read,write";

After that, add the java code to your agent :

String jnaProperty = "jna.library.path";
if(System.getProperty(jnaProperty) == null) {
   System.setProperty(jnaProperty,"your path");
}

In a Java agent, If you are accessing your document via agentContext.getDocumentContext(), I've found a problem in managing attachment with extractFile method

Error found is "a database handle to a remote database cannot be used by more than one thread"

This is my workaround.

Instead of doing:

AgentContext agentContext = session.getAgentContext();
lotus.domino.Document inDoc = agentContext.getDocumentContext();
Database db = agentContext.getCurrentDatabase();

 try doing this : 

AgentContext agentContext = session.getAgentContext();
lotus.domino.Document inDoc = agentContext.getDocumentContext();
String unid = inDoc.getUniversalID();
inDoc.recycle();
Database db = agentContext.getCurrentDatabase();
lotus.domino.Document inDoc2 = db.getDocumentByUNID( unid );

Now works!