Yesterday I listened in on Maureen Leeland's Lotusphere Comes To You Online presentation on Domino Designer 8.5. Although I was interrupted several times during the presentaion, what I saw was quite impressive. Being somewhat famiar with the Eclipse IDE, I was eager to see which of the modern IDE features made their way into the new Designer.
I was glad to see that property boxes are going away (albeit not entirely) and that the bookmarks will be co-existing with the Java-like perspectives. Things I really want to drill deeper on are:
- Code Folding
- Object highlighting and browsing
- Client extensibility for third party tools like oXygen's XML tool.(I'm fairly certain this will work, but I'd like to know the level of integration and interoperation between the Notes pieces and the plug-ins.)
One of the surprises I saw was Xpages. Although I had read about these, I didn't realize their potential until I saw them in person. I can see this technology being a real lifesaver for moving old Notes apps. to the Web.
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