Domino Web Development from the Ground Up: Leveraging the Power of Agents

Scott Good, President, Teamwork Solutions, Inc.


June, 2010

Master the art of getting things done in your Domino Web applications with LotusScript agents. Find out what you can do with agents and learn how to build them. Use agents to write directly to the Web user’s screen, send JavaScript code from your application to the browser, and enable fast-performing Web pages for users as part of an Ajax implementation. A demonstration database contains everything you need to follow along with the examples.

Agents are one of the most important parts of building great Domino Web applications. If you’ve spent even a little bit of time building Domino applications, you probably already know that, but you may not realize the breadth of things they can be used for. In this article, I’ll show you how to take advantage of LotusScript agents to do all kinds of things you might not normally think to use them for in your Domino applications.
This is the fifth in my IBM Lotus series of articles on the basics of Domino Web development. If you haven’t been following the series and are wondering if it makes sense for you to learn Domino Web development in light of XPages, I recommend reading the introduction to the first article in the series.
Now let’s delve into agents and see why they should be an integral part of your Domino Web application development.

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