BuildXPages

BuildXPages is a project which is useful if you are interested in Automating tasks that are involved in building XPages.

For example you may be interested in automating some of these tasks:

• Building NSFs from an On-Disk Project

• Building Plugins and Features

• Refreshing NSF Designs

• Setting Template Inheritance of NSFs

• Start, Stop and Restart Http server

• Uploading Plugins to an NSF Update Site

• Deploy Plugins to Notes/Designer

BuildXPages provides tools which can be used to achieve tasks like these. The main artifact of the project is a collection of custom ANT Tasks, but it also provides a Domino Designer Plugin to help with Headless Building of NSFs

Obtaining the Project

Download the latest Release from the projects releases page, and unzip it to your local filesystem.

Contents of Release

The Root directory should contain this README and the LICENCE file, and also the PDF version of the User Guide

The Root directory should have these folders:

demo

Contains Sample build scripts that demonstrate the tasks that you can achieve with BuildXPages

dist

This contains the actual BuildXPages binary distributable artifacts

docs

Documentation folder of the User Guide

lib

3rd Party libraries that are used by BuildXPages

Getting Started

The best place to start is the user guide! This has instructions on how to install and setup your computer to use BuildXPages.

The release you downloaded will contain a PDF and HTML version of the user guide, but you can always access the latest version of the user guide from the Project Documentation Page.

Problems / Troubleshooting / Suggestions / Feedback

Any questions or problems please submit through the Project’s Github Issues page so that other people will also be able to see if anyone has a similar problem!