HTTP Server is waiting for threads to finish: the wait is over part 2

Posted by on 15 May,2014 1 comment

If you did read my post yesterday about how to break long running requests on the Domino server if not you can find it here The wait is over part 1
Sven Hasselbach commented that this didn’t work for him and yes he is probably right because I suspect that Sven was trying a long running XPage and yes you can’t break them using Restart Task Http but I have a solution/workaround but that requires you to implement a failsafe into your long running code.
If you add this inside your long running loop

if(applicationScope.get(“BreakAllCode”)==true){
  break;
}

And create an Admin Failsafe XPage with a “Break it All” button with the code

applicationScope.put(“BreakAllCode”,true)

And a second button called “Reset” with the code

applicationScope.remove(“BreakAllCode”)

To bring back the application to a normal state.

If you then open up the “Failsafe” XPage if your code has gone wild and click the button you can quit the code that has gone wild.

 

HTTP Server is waiting for threads to finish: the wait is over

Posted by on 14 May,2014 5 comments

How many times have you tried to stop the http task on a Domino server and got this back on the console

HTTP Server: Waiting for session to finish: Session State [Processing Request]

And there you are waiting and waiting for the http to restart och shut down

The solution is not to use tell http quit or tell http restart if you want to shut down http

Use restart task http instead if you want to restart http or restart task http and when the task is restarted use tell http quit.

This will force the http to restart and will not stall the restart because there are some long running requests or view updates that is blocking the restart.

Update: if your using XPages see the Wait is over part 2

Mastering XPages – a good addition to every XPagers bookshelf

Posted by on 2 May,2014 2 comments

As I promised in my previous article  about the book here is the review of Mastering XPages.

I did read the old Mastering XPages from cover to cover over a couple of days when that one came out. And have been using it as reference but not enough I understand now. While reading the second edition of Mastering XPages I had to go back into the first edition several times, was this really in the first edition? And yes it was, I hadn’t read the first edition enough it seams.

I rediscovered some forgotten knowledge about custom controls and communication between custom controls and setting properties on each other. This isn’t something new it was in the first edition, while rereading the updated parts it really updated and verified alot of knowledge for me. Adding some of the new stuff where you get a new angle to things as performance, extending the Notes client XPinc, Mobile and more. All this information together with real example databases where you can try the explained content for your self. I must really say that this is good starting point if you want to start learning XPages or extend you XPages knowledge but If you are a beginner I would still suggest viewing David Leedys Notesin9 JumpStart to XPages first (yes, I know this one is old but still good)

With the updated old content and the new this is really a gold mine and is an great additional resource to the ICS Community with videos and blog posts this really fills it place and the price is if you ask me a bargain for the amount of information you get. And if you use this code IBM3370 in the checkout on IBMPressBooks.Com you get a 35% discount, I also saw that you get the e-book for $10 extra during May 2014 so for a total of $58 you get the hardcopy and the ebook that you can use for search reference.

And to the Authors, great work. Looking for to the next one, because as I see it now we have Mastering XPages, XPages Extension library and the Portable Command Guide books. The missing one is

The Java Developers guide to XPages
with and without OpenNTF Java API

This could really be an interesting book, so who is interested to write it.

What happens in enemy camp: Microsoft Build 2014

Posted by on 12 April,2014 1 comment

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Microsoft developer conference Build was at Moscow center this week. Microsoft new CEO Satya Nadella talked about that Microsoft will be the developers best friend, well we will see about this. They also talked a lot about Internet of Things or to be exact Windows for Things. Windows in your car, your tv and all your other machines. It’s probably only is the multimedia system so we can be calm, no blue screen on the highway. If you want to know more this is the session to view 

Windows phone is free for phone manufactures to meet up the competition from Android and IOS. Microsoft also released version 8.1 with a brand new virtual assistant Cortana to compete with Siri and Google Now. It had alot more news see the Day one keynote to see them all.

Checkout the Day 1 Keynote here and Day 2 keynote here or this video about Cortana

The race against Mobile domination is not over yet and if you have counted out Microsoft you are probably wrong. This is the company that thought internet wasn’t anything for the future and a couple years later they has 90% of the web browser market and almost killed all competition. I’m not saying that they can do this again but moving up and getting 30% of the market is not unrealistic.

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A new native mobile development framework Xamarin was shown. It enables you write the mobile apps in c# and publish them for Windows Phone, IOS and Android. Interesting is that Xamarin enables you to build and test applications for all three platforms on Windows.

Xamarin can be found here

Microsoft also showed of a new element framework called WinJS that will get multi browser support. check it out try.buildwinjs.com

I don’t think that this is tools new but anyway, the development environment Visual Studio is available thru Microsoft Azure as an online service. There is a session about that  Getting Started with Visual Studio Online if you want to know more. 

This was some info on the things I’ve found about the Build dev conference, if you have some more info perhaps you where there, please add a comment.

Mastering XPages is here soon

Posted by on 11 April,2014 No comments

The upcoming second edition of Mastering XPages is here soon with a release date of the 25:th of April.

Impressive 1200 pages of XPages information. Apart from all the old stuff the authors has added content about mobile, extension library, debugging (my favorite part) and performance.

I will write a follow up with a review as soon as I get my hands of a copy of the book.

Check out what the authors say about the new book

mastering xpages at xpagesdeveloper.com

http://youtu.be/2zrrk-TmkXg

You can preorder the book here

IBM Press add IBM3370 in the checkout and get 35% off 

Amazon.com

Domino and Heartbleed

Posted by on 9 April,2014 No comments

A support flash has been sent out by IBM Support that Domino is not affected by the bug.

Link to IBM Support flash can be found here.

http://goo.gl/q9hMBx

But you might be affected anyway because yahoo.com, amazon.com flickr and many more sites are affected by the bug.

If you want to know more about hearthbleed check out links

Affected services

krebson security

heavy.com

Calling web services from XPages the missing part

Posted by on 4 March,2014 5 comments

I had an XPage project where I needed to call some web services to get some information and after reading on different blogs my hopes of getting this to work was almost null. But sometimes knowing your history helps and I remembered how I started to create subforms using dxl for several years ago and that almost everything is stored with in the design note.

So I started to think, does the built in web service consumer create the code inside the design element and yes it did. Great!

Check out my Notes in 9 video here

or continue to read the post

Is there any common things between between this and XPages, Yes. Java! But there is a problem they work in different jvm:s. But when I looked closer to a web services consumer with generated java code, there where 3 jar files attached to the design note. One with the source, one with the precompiled java code and one with the configuration settings.

Let’s export the java code and try, but there isn’t any way to export it. So I created a Lotusscript agent that will export the consumer code, it can be found at xsnippet.openntf.org or here

Import that code into an agent and place the agent inside your database with the created java web service consumer. Run the agent, enter a valid path for the export.

There is only one thing that you need to check when the consumer is created. The consumer java code must be in a package, if not the XPage code will not work or at least I haven’t found a way.

Now Import the two jar files created, in the XPage jar section, or if you are using 8.5.x add the jar files using the package explorer.

Next step: Create a java file that will use the web service code.

And call the code from the XPage.

No modifying java.policy, No special java command line things the only thing is that you must be able to create the java web service consumer and some web services doesn’t work but that I can live with.

This is of course nothing supported by IBM but I will try to convince IBM to build in the export/import action so my agent is unnecessary.

The sample database can be found here

The databases is using free webservices from http://www.restfulwebservices.net/ where I use the soap version instead for the rest service that is not working with the webservice consumer in Domino.

i.e. the stock quote WDSL file can be found at http://www.restfulwebservices.net/rest/StockQuoteService.svc?wsdl and to be able to use this with Domino I change the url to

http://www.restfulwebservices.net/wcf/StockQuoteService.svc?wsdl to get the soap version of the webservice.

HCL Domino call webservice

If you have any questions feel free to send me a comment or use the contact link above

Setup the Sametime IOS Client with IBM Greenhouse

Posted by on 10 February,2014 2 comments

Perhaps you want to try the mobile IOS Mobile Sametime client IBM Green house enables you to try this out.

It probably work with the Android client too but I haven’t tries, and ofcouse you can use it with the notes client.

Signup for a free account here if you don’t have one IBM Greenhouse

Use these settings in the client to connect to the servers.

IBM Connections 2014 Day 2

Posted by on 29 January,2014 1 comment

Another day in the Connections week has past and my reflections today was SBT (Social Business Toolkit) is big. This is a really big investment by IBM, and I see alot of great things in this. IBM seams really commited to get this api out to everybody. They have support for javascript, php, Xpages, IOS and more. Hope that they will really try to get all the big cloud vendors to adapt this, that would be really great.

Social Business Toolkit is apart of one of IBM:s focus areas SMAC – Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud that they are working on and will continue to move forward.

IBM SMAC

Also I saw the SBT playground, that looks really promising as a way to document development, an XPage help version perhaps 🙂

Also it seams like Twitter bootstrap is gaining ground against One UI because more and more is released using that framework, and it’s responsive One UI is not. But I head something about a IBM alternative framework, after some research I think it’s called UAX (Thought is was IDX first, thanks for commenting ) but I’m not sure. Will come back in this matter.

I also watched some more live streams regarding digital experience and one thing I heard that made me hopeful and that was that they were making big investments to improve the rich text editing experience in that product. Hopefully The XPage team could buy them some lunch and get a copy of that code.

Comment if you have seen anything interesting you want to share or if you have a question.

IBM Connections 2014 Day 1

Posted by on 28 January,2014 5 comments

Yesterday was the first day of IBM Connect 2014. The Opening session was full of news for the Cloud area and Mail and IBM Notes probably gets a name change to IBM Mail.

Domino Applications will be able to move to IBM Smartcloud with IBM Soft Layer and the Hybrid Notes will continue to grow. Hybrid Notes is where you use your Notes client for Mail, Calendar and apps but your servers is in the cloud.

The Big announcement was Mail Next a new way to look at the inbox. And from twitter I got some confirmations that this is should be for the Notes Client also, great.

This is of course an example on how it might look but when though it looks interesting. And a beta will come out in the first half of 2014 and to be released in the second half but it’s cloud first.

MailNext

Some other things noted is that the browser notes plugin will get a mac release, There will be a full traveler mail client like the Android client for IOS and a lot of news about Connections Next, a new context aware archive named Alcatraz 

But as an developer I’m very excited to see what the future of Application Development will show on the live stream today at 11:15 AM. What time is that in my local time you might say, I say google is your friend.

Google for “Time in Orlando” and then you can match that against your local time, works perfect.

And you you have the time before that check out the KeyNote with Smarter Workforce it starts at 8:15AM

The streams can be found at

www-01.ibm.com/software/collaboration/events/connect/

And the Schedule is can be found here

www-304.ibm.com/connections/blogs/socialbusiness/entry/connect_2014_livestream_schedule