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Visual Developer Web Site Development With Domino

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By Libby Ingrassia Schwarz (Rating B) Judging from its title, you'd think that Gregory Pepus's Web Site Development With Domino is entirely about what the title says - Web site development with Domino. But it's not: about a third of the book is about administering Domino. Unlike most Domino books, which discuss only Domino on NT, this one explains how to install Domino on NT, OS/2, and UNIX.

The first six chapters take you from an overview of Domino technology through installation and configuration, introducing you, among other things, to the Domino Name and Address book and Internet messaging with Domino. These some good information here, but don't try to read these chapters straight through. The author skips around a lot:use the index to find what you need. The second part of the book (chapters 7 to 12) focuses on development including sample code in Java, JavaScript, LotusScript, CGI, and HTML. These chapters are't for beginners; even experienced database developers will have to skip around.

Chapters 7, 9, 10, and 11 contain a listing of useful @functions and @commands that can be used with the Web. Chapter 8 introduces Web site creation without the need for programming. The section ends with an introduction to Navigators, Imagemaps, and the use of frames in Domino apps. Chapters 13 and 14 explain how to enhance Web sites with search capabilities and java. There's a good seciton on how to conver code created in LotusScript to Java/JavaScript. The appendix contains information about Domino back-end classes and some sample Java code, as well as a Domino 4.6 feature list. The companion CD includes a sample copy of Notes/Domino 4.6.

Web Site Development With Domino is best used for reference. If you're a developer with some background in programming with Java, HTML, CGI, or LotusScript you'll find much that will add to your knowledge and help you create a Domino site. If you're less experienced, I suggest you get another book, such as Steve Oliver and Pete Wood's Lotus Domino Web Site Development for the basics, and use Pepus's as a reference for advanced programming.

Although I am an experienced Notes developer I'm new to using Domino for web development. I have found this book to be very useful. If you are in the same boat: You know something about Lotus Notes and want to understand how Domino creates HTML for the web, I suggest you check out this book. P.S. This is the first time I've felt compelled to write a review to balance the negative rating given by other reviewers.

Alhtough not what I expected, I found this book a comprehensive guideline to using Lotus Domino both on setup and administration as well as a good primer for Domino Web programming. It has allowed me a good start in the field.

Alhtough not what I expected, I found this book a comprehensive guideline to using Lotus Domino both on setup and administration as well as a good primer for Domino Web programming. It has allowed me a good start in the field.

I'm sorry I wasted my money on this book. No matter what you are trying to learn more about, you will be better off reading something other than this book. No detail and some of the examples are just plain wrong...

The good feature about the book is that you can just the cd as a coffee cup mat.

NO Development .. More of an notes admin type (user registration from a text file that be interest to do over the web) book, covers everything except the development to page 300, the explaination of the &login, &deletedocument looks like it came straight out of the notes db. Yes domino.action in there as well as the multi search db yawn... a poor section on the smtp mail transfer and notes shared mail feature <whats that doing in domino book?>.

Save your money! buy the balaban java book, and the Beyer lotuscript book.

This is not the book for developing - unless you want to hire Mr Pepus to do it for you.