It's CollabSphere time again, and I'm delighted to be involved in a few sessions this time. Since I just very recently did an OpenNTF webinar covering the Jakarta EE Support project, these sessions take the form of roundtables I'm helping lead.

One is about Java generally with a tint of Jakarta specifically on Domino:

DEV103 - Java and Jakarta EE on Domino Roundtable
Wednesday at 3 PM Eastern
The story of Java on Domino can be complex, but there are tools and strategies available to keep your development maintainable and consistent with the wider world. This roundtable will focus on discussing the current array of best options for development on Domino, with a specific focus towards discussing how the XPages Jakarta EE Support project can be used to improve your development experience and the capabilities of your apps.

Another is being led by Graham Acres and Heather Hottenstein and includes me, Justin Hill, and Karsten Lehmann in a panel discussion about open-source projects in the Domino sphere:

COL119 - Community Open Source Initiatives and Contributors
Wednesday at 1 PM Eastern
The story of Java on Domino can be complex, but there are tools and strategies available to keep your development maintainable and consistent with the wider world. This roundtable will focus on discussing the current array of best options for development on Domino, with a specific focus towards discussing how the XPages Jakarta EE Support project can be used to improve your development experience and the capabilities of your apps.

There's also a companion session to that one - COL120 - on Thursday at the same time about specifically HCL's open-source initiatives.

Finally, there's OpenNTF's now-annual roundtable hosted by Graham and me:

COL107 - OpenNTF Roundtable: Have Your Say
Thursday at 12 PM Eastern
OpenNTF has been supporting the Notes and Domino community for two decades. Yes, two decades! In that time there have been volumes of projects, code, documentation and other contributions from many people in our community. Over the last few years, we have also been able to bring a number of experts to speak on a wide range of topics in our monthly webinar series. We have expanded our focus from pure development on Domino to additional topics around the wider HCL Collaboration portfolio and system administration too. Once again, we would like to hear from you. Where else can we bring value to the community? Are there webinar topics you would like to see? Are there other ways people would like to be involved?

Beyond the sessions I'm actively participating in, I noticed that this one from Graham and Heiko Voigt name-drops me in the description, so I would be remiss if I didn't mention it:

COL112 - The HCL Domino AppDev State of the Nation - 2022 Edition
Wednesday at 4 PM Eastern
The Domino AppDev landscape has changed recently with new investment from HCL in VoltMX and VoltMX Go. Domino Volt (now soon to be Domino Leap), the AppDev Pack, the Domino REST APIs, Volt MX and the Nomad Clients have added a lot of opportunities but also a lot of confusion. In the Open Source area, Jesse Gallagher build a lot of new capabilities in the Java space. And that doesn’t include investment in old friends like LotusScript. What can be used and when? What apps can I build with which part of the stack? And what about XPages? In this session, we present an overview of the dev tool ecosystem as well as some roads that seem to be stable. Whether you're a Low-Coder, pro-Coder or a CFA in the Domino AppDev World (Come From Away), we will give you a matrix to determine your way forward, be it that you are building new apps, enhancing or modernizing existing apps or migrating apps from one path to another. And we will also try to tell you what seems to be future proven and what - well, not so much.

That one's right after my earlier roundtable on Java/Jakarta and in the same track, so you should be able to just kick back and enjoy a nice Wednesday afternoon there.

This year, I presented a session at CollabSphere that was essentially a whirlwind overview of the tools I use and have written to go with my large client project to do automated builds and CI/CD servers.

Thanks to the Zoom-based nature of the conference, the video is already up and available:

Additionally, I've uploaded the slides to SlideShare here:

At this year's CollabSphere, I'll be presenting a session entitled "DEV114 - The Nuts and Bolts of CI/CD with a Large XPages and REST App":

Though Domino makes working with build servers and CI/CD pipelines difficult, it is possible to do so even with complex applications. This session will discuss the specifics of using several OpenNTF projects - NSF ODP Tooling, the Jakarta XPages Runtime, and XPages Jakarta EE Support - as well as open-source technologies such as Docker to build, test, and deploy Java-based Domino applications for testing and staging. This builds on previous sessions about the NSF ODP Tooling and Maven generally.

The general idea of this is that I'll be discussing how I actually use the various projects I've been working on and talking about over the last few years. I've essentially ended up building my own toolchain across the board just so I don't have to use Designer, and it's paid off handsomely.

I've talked about the NSF ODP Tooling quite a bit before, so I probably won't cover that extremely in-depth here, but it remains the backbone of the whole operation. It'll be good to go a bit further into the specifics of how I run XPages apps outside Domino, the limitations of that due to my inability to change the core runtime, and how that shakes out when running in a Liberty+Notes-runtime Docker container (short answer: really well).

OpenNTF Roundtable

In addition to my personal presentation, I'll be co-running "COL113 - OpenNTF Roundtable: Have Your Say" with Graham Acres. These roundtables are always pretty interesting, serving as a good view into what the OpenNTF board is thinking, what the community is interested in, and a general barometer for the state of app dev in the HCL sphere.

One of the nice bonuses of an all-online conference is that session recording comes built-in, so I was able to snag that and put it up on YouTube for posterity:

Additionally, I uploaded my slides to SlideShare, though that loses out on the extremely-fancy 5-second videos I used:

CollabSphere 2020 is starting tomorrow, this year naturally taking the form of an online conference, which has the nice benefit of meaning that you can still sign up if you haven't done so, and you're only restricted by your time zone offset for attending.

For my part, I'll be giving a presentation on the NSF ODP Tooling, currently slated for tomorrow:

DEV101 - Add Continuous Delivery to Domino with the NSF ODP Tooling

Domino applications, stored in NSFs, have been historically difficult to add to Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins and to have participate in Continous Delivery workflows. This session will discuss the NSF ODP Tooling project on OpenNTF, which allows you to take Domino-based projects - whether targetting the Notes client or web, XPages or not - and integrate them with modern tooling and flows. It will demonstrate use with projects ranging from a single NSF to a suite of a dozen OSGi plguins and two dozen NSFs, showing how they can be built and packaged automatically and consistently.

I hope you'll be able to attend - there are definitely some very-interesting topics lined up.

I've uploaded my slides for my session at CollabSphere: "Preparing Your XPages Applications for a Changing Future":

While working on the presentation, I realized that pretty much all of the slides in there warrant blog posts of their own, so, as I have the time and wherewithal, I plan to expand on the topics a good deal in the weeks to come.

Additionally, Howard Greenberg uploaded the slides from our shared presentation ("shared" in the sense that he did 90% of the work), "Let's Calendar That":