XPages on Bluemix a first look deploying app

On friday the XPages runtime on Bluemix was released and also the new version of OpenNTF Extension library that enables to work with.

My first impression is that it works great I haven’t had time to do any deep diving into the new possibilities but I thought I should share as long as I have tried it.

To get it to work you need a bluemix account and install the latest extlib into you designer client when you done that you will get a new entry in your preference in the designer.

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I have selected the US South (Don’t know if the XPage engine is deployed in the UK site) write your user name and password and Test Connection

if this is ok your designer is connected to Bluemix

Go to bluemix and setup an XPage Starter app when you have logged in to Bluemix you need to go to catalog and at the bottom click on Bluemix Labs Catalog

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inside this beta catalog you will find the XPage Bluemix engine and also a web starter application click on this entry.

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Fill out an name for you app at the lefthand side and press Create

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Your started application is now being setuped and the next step is to download the webstarter app, I actually don’t know if you need the Bluemix commandline tool and I haven’t been able to download it and had it from before so I couldn’t test with out it, but try without it and let me know.

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When you have downloaded the starter code go to designer and in the tools menu

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This will start a wizard when you need to specify a path to a bluemix staging area, this area should not be in the client data folder and connect to the bluemix app area.

To deploy your code to bluemix you need to right click on the database and select deploy application remember to sign your database before doing this if you have multiple signers in the application.

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The deployment will take very long time and if you check the Bluemix the application will show as started but it’s not. This might hopefully be improved with better status updates in future releases.

This will add the design database if you want to connect to the data nsf you need to go into Bluemix and download a notes id and connect you will find this information below services in the Bluemix dashboard.

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It seams like the backend data store for the Bluemix is a Linux Domino server because if you browse it you will find regular databases in the root of the server. It will be interesting to see any performance data from the Bluemix setup.

Also read my XPages for Bluemix the questions

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