Mastering XPages: A Step-by-Step Guide to XPages Application Development and the XSP Language, Second Edition

Chapter 3. Building Your First XPages Application

Now that the setup details are squared away, it’s time to roll up your sleeves and start some real-world XPages application development. Development technologies are best absorbed by working through practical examples and solving everyday concrete problems. For this, you need a reference application to work with, and the standard Notes Discussion template is an ideal candidate. Pretty much all the topics covered in this book are already implemented in one way or another in the Discussion template, and you will disassemble and rebuild this application as a way of developing your XPages expertise! This is also convenient for you insofar as the Discussion template ships out-of-the-box with Domino ...