Create your own data sources

Question

Is there any information on how to create my own data sources for xpages? I am developing a Java API for our system, and I would like to be able to use data as a data source in xpages.

Answer 1

There was a SHOW107 Lotusphere 2011 session that went through the steps. Read about it on the Jim blog , the BleedYellow community, Paul ’s excellent slideck (and related), and SHOW107 .

One warning: data sources do not display their fields in Domino Designer. If you want this functionality, instead of looking at com.ibm.xsp.extlib.model.ObjectDataSource, you must subclass DominoDocument and more or less rewrite all functions.

Answer 2

You can look in the source code of the extension library. There you will find the com.ibm.xsp.extlib.model.ObjectDataSource class as a simple example.