Documentation
The documentation links I provided to you
were not related to Composite Applications. They were related to installing
plugins and using Widgets technology from the client. Yes Composite Apps
can be used to deploy plugins into the client, but Widgets is the preferred
method. I sent you some documentation links about how to deploy plugins
with widgets.
The DDE help does document how to build
composite applications. It does not document in general how to install
plugins into the client as this subject is not specific to DDE.
I don't have the background on all the
plugins you are trying to install and where you are getting them, but in
general this is how deploying plugins on a client works:
1. Obtain the update site for the plugins
you want deployed to the client - this can be from OpenNTF or plugins created
by your developers. These would be plugins that are not shipped in the
client installer.
2. Place the update site into a location
where you client can access it. It can be a folder on your Domino http
server or any http server or can be imported into an Update Site NSF that
can be access via http or NRPC.
3a. For developers only, you can use
the File/Applications/Install menu to install the plugins from the update
site.
3b. For corporate site deployments,
you can create Widgets to automatically deploy the plugins to your users'
clients.
4. In order to deploy newer versions
of the plugins on the clients, you need to obtain the new update site and
perform step #2 again. Then perform step #3a again or update the widget
created in step #3b.
Not all plugins created by IBM will
be shipped with the product. That is where we can use OpenNTF to get these
to our customers.
Can you point me to the documentation
about "The Update Site features as used
by the Extension Library and XPages type of stuff"? I
am interested in what the documentation says and if it is incorrect or
uses different terminology, I can work to get it updated.