Installing and running XPages Extension Library in your local machine

Shamelessly copy pasted from Naveegator

I had been hearing a lot about XPages Extension Library and finally got to try it out in XPages code-a-thon held at Mumbai. So I decided to try it on my local machine along with little help from experts on StackOverflow. Its a simple two-step procedure - install extension library and run extension library.

Install XPages Extension Library

First of all get the latest release of extension library from OpenNTF. Unzip the file and find "updateSiteOpenNTF-designer.zip". Unzip it and you will get two folders of "features" & "plugins" and a file "site.xml". In Lotus Notes sidebar, go to My Widgets and select "Options > Configure a Widget from... > Features and Plugin on an Update Site". If you are unable to see My Widgets in your sidebar then click here.

Now enter the URL for the update site as: file:///C:\updateSiteOpenNTF-designer.zip>\site.xml. Click on load button and you will get all the features in the extension library. Select all of them and click on Next and follow the instructions.

After you are done installing restart the Notes client. Then you would be able to see the extension library components in your Controls tab in Domino Designer.

Running XPages using Extension Library components

If you try to preview any XPage which uses extension library components then you would get an error as Cannot find the library com.ibm.xsp.extlib.library, required by the application . This is because the above procedure only installs the extension library only in Domino Designer, not in the local preview engine.

For that go to /domino/workspace/applications/eclipse and copy-paste the files from features and plugins extracted from updateSiteOpenNTF-designer.zip into their respective locations. Give Notes client a restart and you are ready to run XPages Extension Library.