I couldn't agree with Chris more - building Eclipse plugins for Notes are really powerful and my users are finding them really useful. Of all the Notes databases I've developed over the years, the 2 plug-ins I've developed in the last 6 months have got the most positive feedback. They're very simple things - one runs in the sidebar showing what's on the menu for our canteen lunch today and the other is a sidebar application to quickly lookup employee information with added functionality that you can right click on a name anywhere in Notes and then quickly display information about that person (from a Notes database the information is held in).
I found learning plugin development long and hard (probably not helped by having not written anything in Java before). The most useful resource I found to get me going was a series of videos by Ryan Baxter:
I couldn't agree with Chris more - building Eclipse plugins for Notes are really powerful and my users are finding them really useful. Of all the Notes databases I've developed over the years, the 2 plug-ins I've developed in the last 6 months have got the most positive feedback. They're very simple things - one runs in the sidebar showing what's on the menu for our canteen lunch today and the other is a sidebar application to quickly lookup employee information with added functionality that you can right click on a name anywhere in Notes and then quickly display information about that person (from a Notes database the information is held in).
I found learning plugin development long and hard (probably not helped by having not written anything in Java before). The most useful resource I found to get me going was a series of videos by Ryan Baxter:
http://ryanjbaxter.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/part-1-creating-your-first-plugin-for-lotus-notes/