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IBM XPages Extension Library

I would like to update the UI of an XPage application from OneUI to Bootstrap (see one of my previous posts) and therefore a have done some investigations concerning Boostrap 4 support in the XPages Extension Library.

Now my general question about the "XPages Extension Library", is this project dead or alive?

XPages Extension Library on openntf:

https://extlib.openntf.org/main.nsf/project.xsp?r=project/XPages%20Extension%20Library

Take a look at the last release date!

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XPages Extension Library on github:

https://github.com/OpenNTF/XPagesExtensionLibrary

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Does somebody has another explanation therefore?

Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • ExtLibX has a Bootstrap 4 experimental release https://openntf.org/main.nsf/project.xsp?r=project/XPages%20ExtLibX/releases/A8498784907DA6D386257F6200465E8F. That was a release looking for people to use it and give feedback of anything not working. I think most developers have focused on the Bootstrap 3 codestream because Bootstrap 4.0.0 is still not yet in beta (although 99% complete as of today at https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/milestones).

    If you are committed to 4.0.0, I would recommend using that and giving feedback. The componentised approach of XPages makes so much sense and is what other frameworks tend to use, because if the HTML required changes, it only needs changing once for all instances of the component, rather than everywhere for every instance of the old HTML code.

    If you're able to clone the repository and run it against a local server, to be able to troubleshoot in Eclipse, even better. (My recent NotesIn9 on OpenNTF Domino API Starter Servlet gives the setup instructions. Following that video, I imported core ExtLib and was able to build it with any other configuration changes.)