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Lotus Connections architecture and Atom (live)


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Access points include many of the following:

  • Browsers
  • Lotus Notes
  • Lotus Sametime
  • Websphere Portal
  • Web applications
  • Feed readers
  • Other rich clients

Interesting approaches in thought on deployments
  • default allows read access to all of Lotus Connections except Activities
  • posting comments, blog posts and to participate in Communities requires authentication
  • Paxos pushes the authentication farther out to require authentication for all facets

Atom is the API for Lotus Connections
  • Pushing data out from Lotus Connections is the means
  • Syndication of your data for subscription
  • RIM made some excellent statemetns about the overhead of RSS feeds and parsing with mobile devices
  • important to remember: this is also for pulling information inbound into Connections, like the new RSS enabled mailfiles in Domino 8
  • HTTP protocol is the transport mechanism
  • common HTTP command, GET, PUT, POST, DELETE all apply when working with resources
  • Atom Publishing Protocol is still an Internet draft, in the queue to be a RFC