Some of you have heard about XPages, but then again, some of you have not.  But for those who have never heard of an XPage, Intranet Journal recently described its benefits and advantages when you’re writing an application.

XPages are a new design element within Domino Designer on Eclipse 8.5.  This design element is a new way to display data in a Domino web app, and it separates the design of the page from the data within your app.  Thus, you can bind various data sources to your XPage.  Multiple existing forms and views can be bound to the page, and you can then use that data on the page in question.

Plus, surfacing a view through an XPage allows you to make it look a lot more modern.  The difference between XPages and the traditional default view can be seen when you look at tabbed tables, as it allows you to see contents of each tab without the reload of a page.  This can make your app seem to run a lot better to end-users.

Some recent news was recently came from the Lotus Notes Domino World, as it appears as if there is a bug in Lotus Notes 8.0.2.

According to Ruddigkeit.net, if you have “password checking” enabled or use a password policy in Domino, Lotus Notes remembers the last 50 passwords you used to protect the Notes ID file.  If you try to use one of these passwords you will get the error “You have used this password before.  Please choose a new one.”

But in Lotus Notes 8.0.2 there is a reproducible bug with this function, as you will always get the message, “Your password change succeeded!”  By not receiving the message that the password was changed or already used, it can confuse a user who tries to log in the following day.

But, it appears as if the bug is fixed in version 8.5.