User`s guide

IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes
Domino Designer
Multi-byte characters in WSDL documents
WSDL documents are Unicode-based XML documents and, as such, may contain characters which are
multi-byte in local operating system character sets. Because of file system dependencies, importing
WSDL into a Java Web service or Java script library may not succeed for WSDL documents containing
such characters.
Domino Designer, Domino Server
Web Service version compatibilities
Web services created using Domino Designer 7.x will run on a Domino 8 server with original Domino 7.x
behaviors, except for obvious bug fixes. However, the reverse is not supported, for example, a Domino
7.x server cannot support Web services implemented or generated using Domino Designer 8, due to
Domino Designer 8 modifications and improvements to mappings between WSDL/XML Schema and Java
or LotusScript language constructs.
Accordingly, invoking a Designer 8 Web service or requesting its WSDL document will, if hosted on a
Domino 7.x server, return one of the following HTML messages:
"This version of the Web Service design is not supported on this server" -- from a Java Web
service
or:
"Error 500"
"HTTP Web Server: Lotus Notes Exception - Unknown LotusScript Error." -- from a LotusScript
Web service
Further, opening a Designer 7.x Web service using Designer 8 will display the following warning:
"The selected Web service has less-advanced features than are supported by this version of
Designer. If changes regenerate the WSDL interface, then less-advanced Domino Web Service
runtime environments will no longer execute this service".
However, for Domino 8 Beta 3, Domino 7.x Web services saved using Designer 8.0 will lose their
compatibility with previous versions of Domino and Designer, regardless of the changes made. This
restriction may change for the final release.
Also, making changes using Designer 8 that regenerate the WSDL interface for a Domino 7.x Web
Service will require confirmation in a dialog box, since the Web Service will be permanently upgraded for
Domino 8, and will no longer be compatible with Domino 7.x.
Finally, opening a Designer 8 Web service using Designer 7.x will display the following warning:
"This Web Service has been previously saved in a newer version of Designer. This version of
Designer being used will not be able to save the Web Service."
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