March 2010



The xTalk discussion forum application is a 100% XPages application written for IBM Lotus Notes And Domino 8.5.1 utilizing XPages in the Notes Client and was developed by Declan Lynch.

Styled after many of the popular PHP web forums, xTalk brings the power of web forums to your Domino environment is an easy to deploy and configure application. Using XPages in the Notes client users will experience the same interface no mater how they view it.

Notable xTalk features include:

• Multiple forum support
• Quick and easy setup from the web or Notes 8.5.1 client
• BBcode Editor for forum entries
• Gravatar support
• Supports oneUI V2
• Search
• Installation guide

xTalk was also shown in the Lotusphere 2010 Opening General Session and the Application Development Keynote.

You can download xTalk in the OpenNTF Apache Catalog here.

xTalk was also named a finalist in the 2010 Lotus Awards for Best Open Source Contribution by an Individual.



February 2010

To kick off the OpenNTF Featured Project of the Month we are going to start off with two projects that were recently selected for the 2010 Lotus Awards.




Task Management by Pavone

The Task Management application developed by IBM Lotus Business Partner Pavone is a simple tool to keep track of an individual's and their team members' tasks. The tasks are federated from various sources, e.g. from the users' mailboxes or from other OpenNTF applications, and displayed in either the Lotus Notes sidebar or in Lotus Sametime. From there the actual tasks can be opened in Lotus Notes or in the web browser.

Technically Task Management leverages new rich client application development features based on Eclipse in combination with the standard NSF capabilities and web services. Pavone started with the implementation of this application two years ago and contributed it recently as open source to OpenNTF.

Task Management was awarded the "Best Open Source Contribution by a Business Partner" Lotus Award.

Here is a link to Task Management application in the Apache Catalog.


File Navigator by Rene Winkelmeyer

File Navigator is a multi platform file navigator widget running inside the Lotus Notes sidebar. Lotus Notes users can detach files easily from Notes documents, and this includes full emails that are stored as EML on disk. Vice versa, files can be attached to Notes documents via drag and drop. Various user preferences allow the customization of the drives and directories that are displayed and these preferences are manageable via policies.

Technically File Navigator is an Eclipse plugin leveraging Lotus Notes extension points.

In the spirit of open source Rene Winkelmeyer took the starting point of his project from other OpenNTF contributors and extended it in many ways, e.g. network shares, user preferences, policies, different languages, etc. He's implemented many feature requests from the OpenNTF community and made File Navigator the most active OpenNTF project in 2009.

File Navigator was awarded the "Best Open Source Contribution by an Individual" Lotus Award

Here is a link to the File Navigator application in the Apache Catalog.