User`s guide

IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes

You can use composite applications to install or update custom or third party features in Notes, as

described here. You can also use the Eclipse update manager, if exposed in Notes, to install or update

custom or third party features in Notes.

When an end-user opens a composite application or when a composite application auto-update operation

occurs, if the application definition has changed, an update operation is run to provision both newly

specified features as well as existing features with newer versions available.

The feature requirement update site setting can specify a Domino server (or local nsf replica) or a Portal

server (or any HTTP server). Update site URL examples for each server are as follows:

Domino server supports feature provisioning over the NRPC protocol

Domino server

NRPC://<server-hint-or-hos

>/<replica-id>/

site.xml ->

NRPC://updates.ibm.com/

85257258006000A1/site.xml

Local replica ID

NRPC:///__85257258006000A1/site.xml

Note the use of the double underscore and replica ID in the NRPC protocol.

Domino server optionally supports feature provisioning over the HTTP/HTTPS protocols

HTTP://updates.ibm.com/updatesite.nsf/site.xml

Eclipse update sites in conjunction with Domino NSFs allow for such usage scenarios as the

following:

Host the updatesite.nsf on a Domino Web server.

Supply an updatesite.nsf to others, in which others can merge this updatesite.nsf into their

own.

Supply individual features and plug-ins to others for their own use in their own composite

applications.

Create custom features and plug-ins with the additional capability to create a new

updatesite.nsf and import these features and plug-ins.

Eclipse update site server (HTTP server) supports feature provisioning over the HTTP/HTTPS

protocols

HTTP://updates.ibm.com/updatesite/site.xml

Domino Update Site NSFs

Domino provides the capability to put an Eclipse update site inside an NSF database. An update site is

typically a separate database that doesn't contain composite applications. However, since any Notes

application NSF can contain a composite application, an update site NSF may contain a composite

application. For example, a third party could deliver a composite application and an update site, with the

former pointing to the latter. Or an administrator could put the composite application in an update site NSF

and make it available to users that way. You can define update sites in an update site NSF as described

below.