This post has been sat in draft for the past two weeks with only the title going for it – hardly an auspicious start to providing some meaningful prose related to the ‘way ahead’ for Domino Apps and the new Lotus applications heading our way.
Still, it’s here now, so I can start to fill out a bit more detail and make use of the whole two words typed whilst I was away.
IBM® Lotus® Expeditor is IBM’s universal managed client software to extend composite applications to laptops, desktops, kiosks and mobile devices and is the follow-on release of IBM WebSphere® Everyplace® Deployment. It can be used to extend your IBM Lotus, IBM WebSphere, IBM® Workplace™ or Eclipse™ infrastructures to a managed client environment. An alternative to Microsoft®.NET client software, Lotus Expeditor provides the flexibility that comes from service oriented architecture (SOA) and open standards based on Eclipse.
Why is this of particular interest to us? Well – this is how we are going to be expected to implement our offline portal delivery in the future.
With Lotus Expeditor software, WebSphere Portal installations can deliver composite applications that can operate in connected or occasionally connected environments—on a desktop, laptop, kiosk or tablet computer. This is ideal for mobile workers or for environments where an Internet connection is expensive, unreliable or simply not available, such as places where consumers use kiosks.
How does Lotus Expeditor software provide this support? It enables local portlet support on the client with a toolkit to help you transform JavaTM Specification Request (JSR) 168 portlets into rich client applications running on Microsoft® Windows® or Linux® platforms. And with the Lotus Expeditor network client installer, portal administrators can use WebSphere Portal software to remotely deploy and manage these applications based upon user roles, helping to reduce administration costs.
It was all a lot more interesting in the flesh, so to speak. Bottom line is that it’s actually something else that we will need to develop and not really a setup.exe for us to run.
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Paul lives, rides and works in Cardiff, South Wales. His work seems to largely entail fixing things and keeping wheels on. Officially, he is actively engaged and interested in Enterprise Architecture these days, but has a secret past that involved standing around on glaciers collecting meltwater samples, and walking through endless fields of wheat taking radiance measurements. 
Sound interesting!
Development is expected for most of us, management often need convincing! At least is keeps us sys-admin’s / engineers busy doing something interesting, and not wiping the systems arse!