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Negotiating Enhancements 
By Paul Withers | 9/26/22 2:23 AM | Business - News | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
No IT solution is delivered using code written solely by the solution provider. There is always dependent code written by a third party. Dependency management tooling has proliferated in every technology sector to support this.
And every solution includes an implicit assumption that the dependent code will continue to work as it does and provide whatever the consumer requires.
And the brutal truth for consumers is that the authors of your dependencies did not write their code knowing your requirements up front. Whether or not it fits your implementation falls in the realm of “caveat emptor”. If it doesn’t, if you need an enhancement or you find a bug, your priorities may or may not align with the priorities of the owners of that dependency. With a product, you’re just one paying customer. With open source, you’re just one consumer - not even a customer.
Danube EAP Drop 5 is here!
By Cormac McCarthy | 9/21/22 5:36 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
Four weeks on from the last code drop HCL today released 12.0.2 EAP Drop 5Headline items for me:
Domino Restyler is available out of box in the Notes client as opposed to the last drop in Nomad. (Note: a very informative getting started video with Domino Restyle from the Cross Canada Collaboration User Group is here )
We get a new version of the Admin/Designer 64 bit client. (that’s not to say we don’t get versions of all other client, we do)
The Notes client on Mac runs on 12.6 Monterey (though won’t perfectly until GA)
DOTS – “An error occurred while processing the command”
By Ulrich Krause | 9/15/22 3:33 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
If you are using DOTS in Domino 12.x, you might have seen some NullPointer Exceptions after you have updated a DOTS plugin. Recommendation was to delete the complete workspace-dots folder prior to starting DOTS after the upgrade.
This issue has been addressed in SPR# SJAAC3BNWV: DOTS – Workspace need to be deleted on every change and add of new plugin.
With this fix it is no longer necessary to delete the workspace-dots folder. Not sure, when the fix was provided. There is no information about it in the fix list database.
But this is only true for Domino on WINDOWS. If you are using DOTS with Domino on LINUX, you will see an error on the Domino server console ( “An error occurred while processing the command”) or even worse, the NullPointer Exceptions.
The problem is that the underlying API in Domino does not delete files starting with a dot. (hidden files on UNIX systems).
Domino 12.0.2 One Touch setup with Let’s Encrypt certificates
By Daniel Nashed | 9/15/22 3:32 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
One Touch setup (OTS) is quite powerful tool. But sometimes you need to know exactly what happens and combine functionality to make best use of it.
With Domino 12.0.2 OTS creates certstore.nsf automatically and you can let it create a MicroCA for you.
But what if you want to use a Let's Encrypt certificate instead?
There is a quite simple way to just find and update the existing document with a appConfiguration.
And if you specify notes.ini CertMgr_ACCEPT_TOU=1 the ACME account license agreement will be automatically accepted (already part of 12.0.0).
SafeLinx and HCL Nomad Web: Next Notes Client Generation - panagenda | panagenda
By Panagenda | 9/13/22 4:20 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
You should pay special attention to the infrastructure that keeps the entire IT system running. Especially, at the beginning of your journey to HCL Nomad Web. That’s important, because it must meet all security standards to ensure the smooth operation of HCL Nomad Web.
We will therefore take a look at what we actually need for the infrastructure for HCL Nomad Web.
Jakarta NoSQL Driver for the AppDev Pack, Part 1
By Jesse Gallagher | 9/12/22 3:18 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Though the bulk of the work I've been doing for the XPages Jakarta EE project is to bring JEE technologies to Domino, the NoSQL driver has been designed to lead a double life: it works in an XPages context, but it's written to not have any XPages dependencies. One reason for this is that I want it to be usable if you use, for example, the Open Liberty runtime project to side-car apps on a Domino server but still use Notes.jar for data access.
Another reason for its organization, though, is that I intended for the driver to be portable across implementations. The driver itself is split into a main bundle and a ".lsxbe" implementation bundle. My original thought was to make that ready for a JNX or Domino JNA implementation, but it's pretty flexible.
Download certificate chain without OpenSSL
By Daniel Nashed | 9/12/22 3:17 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Usually OpenSSL is the tool of choice for all type of certificate operations.
But what if no OpenSSL command line is available? Like in a Domino container where you can't install software?
After some research, I came up with the keytool, which is part of the JVM Domino ships.
NotesException: Object has been removed or recycled | eknori.de
By Ulrich Krause | 9/5/22 2:06 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
A few days ago, a customer reported that one of our applications was not working properly and sent the associated logs.
It was very quickly clear under what conditions the error occurred. So it was reproducible, which is the first important step to troubleshooting.
Nevertheless, it took some time to locate the cause. Finally, I was able to find the “error”. To send it ahead. The “error” is not limited to a specific Domino version. The problem also occurs under Domino 9.0.1 FP10.
Update Elasticsearch certificates in Componentpack · stoeps
By Christoph Stoettner | 9/5/22 2:04 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Elasticsearch in HCL Connections Componentpack is secured with Searchguard and needs certificates to work properly. These certificates are generated by bootstrap during the initial container deployment with helm.
These certificates are valid for 10 years (chain_ca.pem) or 2 years (elasticsearch*.pem) and stored in the Kubernetes secrets elasticsearch-secret, elasticsearch-7-secret. So when your HCL Connections deployment is running for 2 years, the certficates stop working.
The documentation on bootstrap is a little bit misleading and my suggested update does not make it into a technote or documentation update since nearly one year.
K3s, Podman and a registry
By Daniel Nashed | 9/5/22 2:03 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Rancher Desktop is a great all-in-one desktop environment.
When running it with the Docker back-end you have all in one environment for development and run-time.
For a server, K3s (https://k3s.io) is my platform of choice. It is production ready and easy to deploy.
For Kubernetes, you always need a registry to pull images.
As soon you need custom images, you will need a registry to upload and download your image.
K3s allows you to configure private registries.
You could use any registry. I am just running the registry Docker image on Podman in my environment.
XPages and RichText (part I) - ACF
By Martin Pradny | 9/1/22 1:32 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
This post is long overdue. I originally planned to write it to document the issues and solutions while working on the app, but as the problems kept appearing I wanted to make sure that I have all the answers. Now I know that I probably won't have them in the near future as I'm seeing new issues even after having the app in production for some time.
OpenNTF - September OpenNTF Webinar - Domino on Docker (and free alternatives)!
By OpenNTF | 8/31/22 12:41 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
In the past years, running Domino as a Container has evolved from something for geeks on a development server, to a serious option to consider for production use. In this session, Martijn de Jong from e-office, will show what benefits Docker or Podman as an extra layer between Domino and Linux provide in the areas of standardization, portability and upgradability. He will also show how easy it is to create your own Domino container image with a live demo.