So I made a simple Java Agent that creates a simple Excel file and embed it as an attachment. First of all you need to download Apache POI.

Create a new Java Agent. Import the poi.jar as archive. Also import the dependencies commons-logging.jar and log4j.jar

Edit your JavaAgent.java

Take a look at this code and implement your own agent (our copy it if you’re too lazy to understand).

Past it where the comment is (Your code goes here).

// (Your code goes here)
Workbook wb = new HSSFWorkbook();
Sheet sheet = wb.createSheet("Sheet 1");
Row row = sheet.createRow(0);
row.createCell(0).setCellValue("Hello Lotus");
Document doc = agentContext.getCurrentDatabase().createDocument();

RichTextItem item = doc.createRichTextItem("item");
File tempFile = new File(doc.getNoteID());
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(tempFile);

wb.write(out);
out.close();

item.embedObject(EmbeddedObject.EMBED_ATTACHMENT, null, tempFile.getAbsolutePath(), "Excel.xls");
doc.save();

tempFile.delete();
getAgentOutput().println("Done!");

Make sure that you import the classes after you pasted the code. Press Ctrl+1 on the errors.

If you have some questions? Place a comment or contact me at twitter @JavaWithMarcus

First install the dependencies:

sudo aptitude install libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-0

After that install the DEBs with –force-architecture switch. No need to force everything.

sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture ibm-lotus-notes-8.5.2.i586.deb

And if you want sametime also:

sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture ibm-lotus-sametime-8.5.2.i586.deb

That’s it, start the client running

/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/framework/../notes

You will see the splash screen, it will disappear and do sometime nothing, just wait and a terminal window will popup with the license agreement. If you agree you will see the updated GUI Lotus Notes!

facesContext.getRequest().getRequestHeaderMap().get("User-Agent");

This returns:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.125 Safari/533.4

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0)

Install first the flashplayer installer through apt-get (This will actually install flash 32-bits with a wrapper so its works on a 64-bits browser

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

Then download the 10.1 version here and put the libflashplayer.so file in /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer

This will override the current 10.0 version.

If you have a config like mine you’re probally affected. We have a static group password and a OTP (One-Time-Password) for the user password.

If you create a connection put all items on Saved and enter a value. If you save it now it will ask you (if you use it for the first time) for access to the keyring. For my config I’ve to put a dummy user password.

Once saved you can edit and set the user password to Always ask.

Tested on Ubuntu 9.10 & 10.04 and openSUSE 11.2

sudo dpkg -i –force-architecture ibm_lotus_notes-8.5.i586.deb

sudo dpkg -i –force-architecture ibm_lotus_activities-8.5.i586.deb

sudo dpkg -i –force-architecture ibm_lotus_cae-8.5.i586.deb

sudo dpkg -i –force-architecture ibm_lotus_sametime-8.5.i586.deb

sudo dpkg -i –force-architecture ibm_lotus_symphony-8.5.i586.deb

apt-get install ia32-libs

getlibs -p libavahi-client3 libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libbonoboui2-0 libcroco3 libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2 libeel2-2 libgnome2-0 libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnome-keyring0 libgnome-menu2 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeui-0 libgnomevfs2-0 libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-dev librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libselinux1 libsepol1 libstartup-notification0 libxkbfile1 gtk2-engines-ubuntulooks gtk2-engines-murrine

/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/framework/

../notes

After you’ve done this there are some steps to make it almost perfect.

Fonts fix. Install ttf-xfree86-nonfree package (Thanks Bram!)

yum install ttf-xfree86-nonfree

Fix Open attachment option. You cannot open attachments from the browser (this has also been seen on 32 bits systems). To fix this remove openwith in the notes directory and make a symlink to gnome-open

rm /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith
ln -s /usr/bin/gnome-open /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith

And for the last, start notes with linux32. This fixes that last library issues. Browser works and Sametime.

cd /opt/ibm/lotus/notes
linux32 ./notes

This is tested on Jaunty 64bits

There are some solutions to change de webui-jsf.jar library to hardcode the URL, since this is not the best solution, because you have to create a patch for every project (even create a patch if you move the project from test to production envoirement).

So i’ve looked in the code (shipped with Netbeans) and made a little fix. I determine the server URL from the HttpServletContext.

My fix:

Edited com.sun.webui.jsf.util.JavaScriptUtilities

The following method is little bit changed to determine the jsFile String

   private static void renderJavaScriptInclude(UIComponent component,
            ResponseWriter writer, String file) throws  IOException
        if (file == null) {
            return;
        }
        String baseURL = "";
        try
        {
            HttpServletRequest req = (HttpServletRequest)FacesContext
                 .getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequest();
            StringBuffer url = req.getRequestURL();
            baseURL = url.substring(0, url.indexOf("/",10));
            // HTTPS fix over LB
            if (baseURL.indexOf(":443") >0)
            {
                baseURL = baseURL.replaceFirst("http://", "https://").replaceFirst(":443", "");
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            baseURL = "";
        }
        String jsFile = baseURL + getTheme().getPathToJSFile(file);

You can also download the patched jar file and put it in your netbeans directory/visualweb2/modules/ext/

Finally some annoying bugs are fixed now. Visual Designer ICEfaces (Netbeans) works almost like a charm now.
There are some small things missing (like effects) but these things are easlily to work around in JSP edit mode.

Download here