The postie finally arrived with the long awaited Xpages extension library printed copy. I know that when I am working on development I do like to have physical reference materials available to me to facilitate checking details , syntax and examples. I’ am really looking forward to testing out the examples from the book and an initial glance through it shows plenty of material to get stuck into.
A summary of the content is
Contents Part I: The Extension Library, Installation, Deployment, and an Application Tour
Chapter 1 The Next Generation of XPages Controls
Chapter 2 Installation and Deployment of the XPages Extension Library
Chapter 3 TeamRoom Template Tour Part II: The Basics: The Application’s Infrastructure
Chapter 4 Forms, Dynamic Content, and More!
Chapter 5 Dojo Made Easy
Chapter 6 Pop-Ups: Tooltips, Dialogs, and Pickers
Chapter 7 Views
Chapter 8 Outlines and Navigation
Chapter 9 The Application’s Layout Part III: Bells and Whistles: Mobiles, REST, RDBMS, and Social
Chapter 10 XPages Goes Mobile
Chapter 11 REST Services
Chapter 12 XPages Gets Relational
Chapter 13 Get Social Part IV: Getting Under the Covers with Java
Chapter 14 Java Development in XPages
I can tell that this particular book is going to end up very well thumbed. More about it as I get stuck into it.