IBM Lotus Expeditor

IBM Lotus Expeditor
Developer(s) IBM
Development status Active
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Type OSGi Service Platform
Website lotus products

IBM Lotus Expeditor is a software framework by IBM's Lotus Software division for the construction, integration, and deployment of "managed client applications", which are client applications that are deployed from, configured, and managed onto a desktop, usually by a remote server. The goal is to allow developers to create applications that take advantage of running on a local client, while having the same ease of maintenance as web-based applications.

Description

There are several parts to Expeditor:

In addition, Lotus Expeditor Toolkit is for developers to create Expeditor applications and create customized Expeditor runtimes. It runs on top of the Eclipse integrated development environment.

Lotus Software uses Expeditor in many of its own products, including Notes (from version 8), Sametime (from version 7.5), and Symphony.

History

Lotus Expeditor has its roots in IBM's Pervasive Computing (PvC) initiatives. which were associated with the pursuit of ubiquitous computing. Early forms of Lotus Expeditor were first outlined publicly in 2001 in an article on IBM's Pervasive Computing Device Architecture.[1] This architecture served as the basis for IBM PvC embedded software deliveries in many areas, including automotive telematics, industrial control, residential gateways, desktop screenphones, and handheld mobile devices.

In 2003, the core of the PvC Device Architecture, the OSGi Service Platform, was used in a refactoring of the Eclipse runtime to incubate what became Eclipse 3.0. This incubator project was referred to as Equinox. Eclipse 3.0 was released in 2004 as a refactored runtime (Rich Client Platform or RCP) and an integrated development environment (IDE) that exploited RCP.

Later in 2004, IBM announced Workplace Client Technology (WCT) for creating managed client applications targeted at desktops. WCT was an application of the PvC Device Architecture to desktops, which then included the RCP technologies. WCT also came with document editors that could read word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in OpenDocument format.[2][3]

Later that year, IBM rebranded the PvC Device Architecture as a platform called Workplace Client Technology, Micro Edition (WCTME).[4][5] IBM took the existing Workplace Client Technology and renamed it Workplace Client Technology, Rich Client Edition (later Rich Edition or WCTRE).

IBM created a configuration of the WCTME platform, called Workplace Client Technology, Micro Edition—Enterprise Offering (WCTME-EO), as the first generally available product to support the construction and deployment of desktop applications for Workplace. WCT Micro Edition—Enterprise Offering had a smaller footprint than WCT Rich Edition by focusing only on the integration of line-of-business applications and, correspondingly, not including the document editors.[6]

The names of the technologies continued to evolve in the next couple of years.

In 2006, IBM started to de-emphasize the Workplace brand in favor of its existing Lotus and WebSphere brands.[9] As part of this effort, it created the Expeditor brand within Lotus:[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Jim Colson, The Pervasive Computing Device Architecture, MicroDevNet, April 3, 2001. Accessed 2007-11-06
  2. ↑ Harish Grama, Keith Attenborough, John Banks-Binici, Jim Marsden, Carl Kraenzel, Jeff Calow, Shankar Ramaswamy, Yu Xin Kou, Mary Ellen Zurko, and Heidi Votaw, IBM Workplace Client Technology (Rich Client Edition) Technology Overview, IBM Redpaper, 2004. Accessed 2007-09-26.
  3. ↑ Philip Monson, Timothy K. Choo, and Christopher J. O'Neill, IBM Workplace Client Technology Productivity Tools for IBM Lotus Workplace Documents 2.0.1, IBM Redpaper, 2004. Accessed 2007-09-26.
  4. ↑ Announcing IBM Workplace Client Technology, Micro Edition, IBM, 2004. Accessed 2007-09-26.
  5. ↑ David Reich, WCTME Technology Roadmap, IBM, 2004. Accessed 2007-09-26.
  6. ↑ Workplace Client Technology Micro Edition Enterprise Offering Application Developer's Guide, IBM, 2004. Accessed 2007-09-26.
  7. ↑ Hangsu Ma, Managing IBM Workplace Managed Client applications, IBM developerWorks, 2005. Accessed 2007-09-26.
  8. ↑ Philip Monson, Lori Ott, Nishant H. Shah, and Shane O'Sullivan, IBM Workplace Managed Client: ISV Integration Guide, IBM Redpaper, 2006, p. 195. Accessed 2007-09-26.
  9. ↑ David DeJean, Good Riddance To IBM Workplace, InformationWeek, January 22, 2007. Accessed 2007-09-26.
  10. ↑ Lotus Expeditor 6.1 Data Sheet, IBM, 2007. Accessed 2007-09-26.
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