I have seen more than once both of own and other developer experience that a loop in XPages gone bad and you have to kill the server. How can this kind of behavior be fixed in XPages for Bluemix will the dashboard work to “kill” the server?
When I started to try out XPages for Bluemix I started to create a list of questions for the future because this is in Beta and between now and Gold release some of this questions would be good to have an answer on.
What release cycle could we expect to get for the XPages runtime, in relation of getting new versions of extension library and functionality – Answereda monthly release cycle or synced with openntf extension library upgrades
How do we run scheduled code that we have runned in agents before – Not at this point but the possibility could be there in a future release Answer
How to handle Users/Groups/Roles partial answerGroups is not supported and you are limited to 6 web users in the experimental version of XPages for bluemix
How to register users thru code, integrate with LDAP, SAMLNot at this point partial answer
How to control JVM Security
How to do an automated XPage build process – Could could add git to a Bluemix project and deploy your code the git See post perhaps we will see a ODP git push to Bluemix in the future that would be great.
How to use other Bluemix Services with XPages AnswerAnswer2
How to package an XPage for Bluemix solution as a temple for multi service deployment
can a XPages application be run inside a Docker container
How does XPages in Bluemix scale – Answer and a very good one
Is the database
I will probably get more questions and will then update this post. I will also add any answers I get to this post. If you know any answer please comment.
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.
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
inside this beta catalog you will find the XPage Bluemix engine and also a web starter application click on this entry.
Fill out an name for you app at the lefthand side and press Create
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.
When you have downloaded the starter code go to designer and in the tools menu
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.
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.
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.
Are you an developer or an software administrator?
If you answed Yes, why would you then want to look after or upgrade server hardware ever again?
You should focus on the future of your applications /business not on when harddisks / motherboards needs to be replaced. Another great thing is scaling your business in a cloud enviroment. Traditional you have to size the server after the biggest load. But with a real cloud based solution you can change the size so it fits your needs or the provider does this for you. But you should choose your cloud provider wisely because the service they offer is not the same. These are some things that I thing is important.
Ownership of data
Speed of access to service
Security
Price when scaling service
Backup and Restore of data
User management / Single signon
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The bottom line is by using a cloud based infrastructure your needs can scale when your business does and you don’t have to wait for new servers to be installed. Your business can grow freely and without any limitations that’s the greatness with a cloud based IT infrastructure.
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