Re: [Zope] integration w/ Lotus Notes
On 27/3/01 1:16 am, "Sundar Narasimhan" <sundar@ascent.com> wrote:
Hi, Does anyone have any help/suggestions wrt. how I can go about connecting a Zope app. to Lotus Notes?
Has anyone attempted/done such a thing already?
You'd be surprised how many people in the Zope world came from Notes/Domino :-) "connecting a Zope app. to Lotus Notes" can cover whole range of things. We've got Zope and Domino working together in a single system, in a variety of ways. What is the specific problem you are trying to solve? Simon -- --------- My opinions are my own, NIP's opinions are theirs ---------- Simon J. Coles Email: simon@nipltd.com New Information Paradigms Work Phone: +44 1344 753703 http://www.nipltd.com/ Work Fax: +44 1344 753742 =============== Life is too precious to take seriously ===============
You'd be surprised how many people in the Zope world came from Notes/Domino :-) "connecting a Zope app. to Lotus Notes" can cover whole range of things. We've got Zope and Domino working together in a single system, in a variety of ways. What is the specific problem you are trying to solve? Actually, I'm trying to see if I can avoid Domino altogether! :) (i.e. is there a way I can create a session, connect to a Notes database, and read/write stuff from it?) I presume from your reply that the answer is "yes, of course". I'll go read the "connecting a zope app. to Lotus Notes" -- I searched for "Lotus Notes" on the zope.org site and didn't find anything relevant.. do you know where this document might be? Thanks.
On 27/3/01 3:03 pm, "Sundar Narasimhan" <sundar@ascent.com> wrote:
Actually, I'm trying to see if I can avoid Domino altogether! :) (i.e. is there a way I can create a session, connect to a Notes database, and read/write stuff from it?)
Don't know. Depending on your platform and the data types, you may be able to use ODBC and NotesSQL. You may also be able to use Zclient and do an http request to Domino. We've done things like: - use Notes Agents to put stuff into SQL, and Zope serves out of the SQL database - get the Notes data represented as XML and pump that into Zope (to be stored in the ZODB or SQL) - have a Zope page either link to or have in a frame the Domino content For example, the current http://zope.nipltd.com is Zope for most of it except anything under /public, which Apache directs to Domino. Don't forget about Domino the Client Access License. You have to have per-client or a server CAL if people are getting data out of the Domino server, even if the authentication and user accounts are done in Zope. So if your system uses Zope to retrieve data out of Domino, and people log in to your Zope site, get your wallet out. As well as general robustness, the Domino CAL mess is why we prefer to pump data back and forth rather than do live links between Domino and Zope.
I presume from your reply that the answer is "yes, of course". I'll go read the "connecting a zope app. to Lotus Notes" -- I searched for "Lotus Notes" on the zope.org site and didn't find anything relevant.. do you know where this document might be?
No, sorry. Simon -- --------- My opinions are my own, NIP's opinions are theirs ---------- Simon J. Coles Email: simon@nipltd.com New Information Paradigms Work Phone: +44 1344 753703 http://www.nipltd.com/ Work Fax: +44 1344 753742 =============== Life is too precious to take seriously ===============
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