Check out Lotusphere 2009 in Orlando, Florida, at the Walt Disney World Resort from January 22 to January 29, 2009. The theme of the conference will be the “power of the community”. Join us and celebrate sixteen years that Lotusphere has been a industry leading conference. If you are a business or IT professional, administrator, or developer and know that collaboration is a key asset, then Lotusphere 2009 will give you access to the latest and greatest expertise and information about IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Lotus software products. Come to Lotusphere 2009 and help power our community.

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XPages, a recent addition to the IBM Lotus Domino Web development technology toolkit, is probably the most cutting edge and powerful of the set. Xpages provides for capabilities that were previously not thought possible to have in the Domino Web application development environment. XPages gives you the capability to easily develop Web 2.0 type user experiences for your existing web applications. This tutorial will demonstrate the power of XPages by illustrating how to update the Domino address book template with Web 2.0 functionality. Check out this Lotus Domino XPages tutorial now.

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Get the tools you need to develop Web 2.0 applications using the Lotus Web 2.0 Developer Kit. more>

Follow along step-by-step as we show you how to create an NSF-based composite application in IBM Lotus Notes V8 using both NSF and Eclipse components. You can reference these procedures when creating your own composite applications. more>

Get a free trial download of IBM Lotus Forms V3.0 (formerly Workplace Forms), which provides a zero-footprint eForms solution to help you automate and move forms-based business processes off the desktop and onto the Web. With Lotus Forms, you can extend applications beyond the firewall by creating a single electronic form document ready for use in both thick and Web 2.0 thin client format. more>

Visit IBM developerWorks to download a trial version of IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino V8 at no cost. Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino delivers a portfolio of collaboration software to help people share and manage information, make business decisions quickly, and streamline the way they work. New features of Lotus Notes and Domino V8 include a streamlined interface, central location for all applications, sophisticated search capabilities and a suite of ODF-compatible office productivity tools. more>

Download a free trial version of IBM Lotus Expeditor 6.1.1 toolkit to see how easily you can leverage your OSGi foundation and Eclipse platform skills to develop and extend composite applications to managed clients -- used online or offline. Lotus Expeditor is IBM's universal managed client software to extend composite applications to laptops, desktops, kiosks and mobile devices. It can be used to extend your Lotus, WebSphere, Workplace, or Eclipse infrastructures to a managed client environment. more>

Download a free trial version of IBM Lotus Component Designer V6, an innovative, easy-to-use, standards-based development tool that script developers, Microsoft Visual Basic developers, IBM Lotus Domino application designers, and others can use to create components for IBM WebSphere Portal V6. Supporting a service-oriented architecture (SOA), Lotus Component Designer is ideal for composite application development and for extending existing applications with collaborative components. more>

Learn how IBM Lotus Component Designer and IBM WebSphere Portal are the ideal tools for creating and delivering composite applications. Follow along with a real-life scenario in which you download a sample component created with Lotus Component Designer, deploy it to WebSphere Portal, and turn it into a fully working composite application more>

Tools to Create UML Diagram: This demo guides you through installation of Omondo's free UML plugin for Eclipse. You will also learn how to create a simple UML class diagram using the new plugin more>