Learning XPages makes a LOT of sense if other parts of your job involves Java / JEE : there are many many reuse possible between the 2 worlds.
Domino Web Development with XPages has moved faster in the last 2 years with Xpages (beta and gold releases) than in the last 15 years. And It's still moving very fast thanks to a fabulous team led, among others, by Philippe Riand the lead Xpages Architect.
Imagine Domino "core" features (NSF Datastore, granular security, replication, template facility etc...) with, on top of it, an application server completely extensible (Xpages + extension library), standard compliant so he can talk and be called easily by the rest of the wolrd + an IDE itself extensible: you got it, Xpages and DDE !
The backend is there, the tooling is there, but we, developers / architects etc also have to make our part of the Job : stop doing "old school" notes applications and do real domino development !
And, I'm sorry to say this, it's time to be offensive ! The project we are just finishing started several months ago with a "No, no Domino here, we hate Domino" from the customer CTO : we showed him what recent Domino version could do, we cleanly integrated it in Websphere Portal etc.. In the end, it's becoming an official IBM reference with video testimonials and so on. Not to mention that this customer has Exchange/Outlook for messaging...but we sold the vision of Domino as an application server and it worked well : application works very well, every one is happy...
Learning XPages makes a LOT of sense if other parts of your job involves Java / JEE : there are many many reuse possible between the 2 worlds.
Domino Web Development with XPages has moved faster in the last 2 years with Xpages (beta and gold releases) than in the last 15 years. And It's still moving very fast thanks to a fabulous team led, among others, by Philippe Riand the lead Xpages Architect.
Imagine Domino "core" features (NSF Datastore, granular security, replication, template facility etc...) with, on top of it, an application server completely extensible (Xpages + extension library), standard compliant so he can talk and be called easily by the rest of the wolrd + an IDE itself extensible: you got it, Xpages and DDE !
The backend is there, the tooling is there, but we, developers / architects etc also have to make our part of the Job : stop doing "old school" notes applications and do real domino development !
And, I'm sorry to say this, it's time to be offensive ! The project we are just finishing started several months ago with a "No, no Domino here, we hate Domino" from the customer CTO : we showed him what recent Domino version could do, we cleanly integrated it in Websphere Portal etc.. In the end, it's becoming an official IBM reference with video testimonials and so on. Not to mention that this customer has Exchange/Outlook for messaging...but we sold the vision of Domino as an application server and it worked well : application works very well, every one is happy...