• update manager
• composite applications
• widgets
• provisioning
• the feature panel
• the Addon installer
• the Enterprise Management Agent

Prerequisites
For the purposes of this article we used one machine with the Notes Client 8.5.3 installed and an Eclipse update site.

Update manager

1. The update manager function in Lotus Notes is disabled by default, so we need to enable it by changing “enable.update.ui=false” to “enable.update.ui=true” in the file com.ibm.notes.branding.prefs in the directory “<Notes_workspace>\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.runtime\.settings\”.
   
   Example: On Windows you can find the file named "plugin_customization.ini" at  "C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Notes\framework\rcp". Open that file and change or add "com.ibm.notes.branding/enable.update.ui=true" (without the quotes)
   
   Check more information about this at the Notes 8 online help.
    
2. After Lotus Notes is restarted, the update manager is enabled.
3. From the Notes menu, select File --- Application --- Install (see figure 1).

Figure 1. Open the Feature Updates window



4. In the Features Update window, select Search for new features to install, and click Next.
5. In the Application Locations window, you can add the URL, folder, or ZIP/JAR location, to install features. To edit or remove features, highlight the location. Click Finish (see figure 2).

Figure 2. Applications Location window



6. In the Search Results window, select the features to install, and click Next to continue (see figure 3).

Figure 3. Search Results window



7. Select Accept item in the Feature License window and click Next. Wait until the status message pops up to prompt you to restart Lotus Notes, and restart it for the update manager installation to take effect.
8. Select Open --- Application --- Application Management, to verify the feature installed successfully and displays in the features list (see figure 4).

Figure 4. Application Management window

To uninstall features via update manager

1. Click the feature in the feature list; the Available Tasks of the feature display in the right-hand column.
2. Click the Uninstall link and verify, then restart Lotus Notes for the uninstall to take effect.

1. Copy the update site to an IHS doc root, after which you should be able to get the site.xml via http://[IP]/test/site.xml. Note that [IP] is the IP of HTTP server.
2. Log in to Portal server as an admin and select Launch --- templates.
3. In the templates page, click “Application library”, then “New”, and enter the name and description.
4. Select "Portal blank template" as the template; click OK.
5. In the application list, find TestSimpleSWTView, click the name link, click the Page Menu button (see figure 5), and then select "edit page layout".

Figure 5. Page Menu button



6. Click the Add portlets button, find “Rich Client View Placeholder", check the check box next to the portlet, click OK and then click the Rich Client tab (see figure 6).

Figure 6. Rich Client tab



7. In the Portlets section, click the pencil icon next to the Rich Client View Placeholder portlet (see figure 7).

Figure 7. Pencil icon



8. Click the Add button in the Feature requirements section (see figure 8).

Figure 8. Feature requirements section



9. Enter the feature information in the Rich Client Layout Administration window as shown in the example in figure 9, where the Provisioning URL is http://IP/test (the folder to the site.xml of the test application). Click Done.

Figure 9. Rich Client Layout Administration window



10. Input the Eclipse view id in the Rich client properties section (see figure 10); click OK.

Figure 10. Rich client properties section

Open the CA to install the feature

2. Put the feature you're going to install on local disk, for example, C:/features/HelloWorld_1.0.0.
3. Open a command window, change the current directory to <Notes_install_dir>, run the following command to install the feature:

4. Restart the Notes Client, select Open --- Application --- Application Management, and in the Application Management window, verify the features are in the Features list.

Uninstall features via API command

1. Get the feature install build and put it under a working directory, such as C:/features/HelloWorld_1.0.0.
2. Create an install manifest file named mymanifest.xml on the local directory, for example, C:/features/mymanifest.xml.
3. Add manifest contents in mymanifest.xml. such as url=”file://C:/features/HelloWorld_1.0.0”. Listing 1 shows the content of mymanifest.xml.

Listing 1. mymanifest.xml content

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

	<ibm-portal-composite>

	<domain-object name="com.ibm.rcp.installmanifest">

	<object-data>

	<install>

	<installfeature>

	<requirements>

	<feature id="helloFeature" url="file://C:/features/HelloWorld_1.0.0" version="1.0.0" match="compatible" size="1086" download-size="602" config="user" action="install" shared="false"/>

	</requirements>

	</installfeature>

	</install>

	</object-data>

	</domain-object>

	</ibm-portal-composite>