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IBM® Lotus® Expeditor software provides desktop client integration software to help extend composite Composite Application Editor to managed clients on various supported devices. An open, standards-based alternative to Microsoft® .NET clients, its managed client capabilities can be used by other IBM offerings like IBM WebSphere® Portal, IBM Lotus Sametime, IBM Lotus Forms and IBM WebSphere Application Server software.
Lotus Expeditor provides a toolkit which helps developers rapidly build and deploy applications on Lotus Expeditor. The toolkit is included in the Lotus Expeditor client.
Lotus Expeditor software provides client and the corresponding server-side connectors for the following capabilities:
Composition. Provides comprehensive universal managed client software for service-oriented architecture (SOA). It can be used to build and deploy composite applications containing components of all types - from Java™ Foundation Class Swing, text terminal, Microsoft Visual Basic and ActiveX and applets to native or Web views like Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax), Adobe PDF, Java Server Pages, IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Lotus Forms components. As a result, you can create a visually integrated view and integrated workflow within the composite application - using processes contained in your back-office applications. The Lotus Expeditor toolkit includes a property editor to assist in the wiring of components in a composite application to help speed the integration. It now also provides Composite Application Editor capabilities (from IBM Lotus Notes 8 software) so that developers can integrate information across applications more quickly and easily. Integration. Helps bring information to your users' fingertips by enabling access to multiple data sources through the managed client using various technologies such as:
- Web services (JSR 172 and Apache Axis - JSR 101)
- IBM DB2® Everyplace® software
- WebSphere Portal (JSR 168 portlets) software. New support for Portlet Struts Framework separates Java code from the Web artifacts so that Java and Web developers can each leverage their own skills to help speed the integration of portlets into desktop composite applications.
- IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter (and SCA client proxy) software
Disconnected access. Help increase productivity by providing offline access to applications through local business logic and data. Support for WebSphere Portlet Factory software means that it can be used to develop offline, managed client portlets. Mobile access. Enable employees to access enterprise information when away from the office, through laptops, PDAs and smartphones that are supported by the Lotus Expeditor client for devices. Server-managed deployment. Help reduce deployment and maintenance costs by enabling client applications to be remotely deployed and managed from the server. Rich client and Web-based user interfaces. Promote reuse of skills and help increase developer productivity by offering developers a choice of programming models. The client developer environment includes managed client software and a servlet container, enabling developers to write Eclipse - and OSGi™ - based software or Web-based applications that run locally. Client access via a Web browser. Citrix Presentation Server environment support means that users can use a browser from existing lower-powered workstations to access Lotus Expeditor software based applications.
Lotus Expeditor software also includes many client security features including desktop lockdown, credential (key) store, enterprise single sign-on, two-factor authentication, enhanced Web services security, RSA encryption and integration with eTrust® SiteMinder® and Tivoli® Access Manager for e-Business (WebSEAL) for authentication. |
