HCL Notes

HCL Notes Features and Components - Provides business collaboration functions such as email, calendars, to-do lists, contact management, discussion forums, file sharing, websites, instant messaging, blogs, document libraries, user directories, and custom applications. - Can be used with other HCL Domino applications and databases. - Removed integration with IBM Lotus Symphony in version 9. - Developed by Lotus Development Corporation in 1989. - Acquired by HCL Software in 2018. - HCL Notes client application (based on Eclipse). - HCL Notes client options: rich client, web client (HCL iNotes), mobile email client (HCL Notes Traveler). - HCL Verse client options: web email client (Verse on Premises), mobile email client (Verse Mobile). - HCL Domino server. - HCL Domino Administration Client. - HCL Domino Designer (Eclipse-based integrated development environment). - Competes with products from Microsoft, Google, Zimbra, and others. - Supports replication between servers and between server and client. - Compatible with both Notes and web browsers. HCL Domino Applications - Access, store, and present information through a user interface. - Enforce security. - Replicate data between servers and allow offline capabilities for clients. - Uses Notes Storage Facility (.nsf) as the standard storage mechanism. - Can access relational databases through HCL Enterprise Integrator for Domino, ODBC calls, or XPages. - Supports multiple development languages including Java, LotusScript, and JavaScript. - Applications can run within the Notes runtime environment or through a web server. Use of HCL Notes - Can be used for email, calendar, PIM, instant messaging, web browsing, and other applications. - Supports IMAP and POP email with non-Domino mail servers. - Retrieves recipient addresses from LDAP servers, including Active Directory. - Features group calendars, SMTP/MIME-based email, NNTP-based news support, and automatic HTML conversion. - Supports integration with Sametime for instant messaging and presence awareness. - Provides a web services interface and can function as a web server for HTML files. - Allows development of database applications using Domino Designer. - Supports workflow-type applications and server clustering for geographic redundancy. Client/Server and Data Replication - HCL Notes and Domino are client/server database environments. - Domino server software runs on Windows, Unix, AIX, and IBM mid-range systems. - Can scale to tens of thousands of users per server. - Security capabilities at various levels, including field-level authorization and database-level parameters. - Independent of server OS or Active Directory. - Supports data replication for offline capabilities and redundancy. Replication and Security - Replication between servers or between a client and a server. - Replication over a network or a point-to-point modem connection. - Replication intervals according to a defined schedule. - Near-real-time replication triggered by data changes in server clusters. - Manual replication triggered by an administrator or program. - Creation of a local replica of an NSF file on the hard disk. - Full usage of Notes and Domino databases while working offline. - Synchronization of changes when client and server connect. - Use of local replicas to reduce network latency. - Automatic or manual replication between a Notes client and Domino server. - Use of public key cryptography for authentication and data encryption. - Export restrictions on encryption keys until 2000. - Negotiation with the NSA for stronger encryption support. - Code-signature framework for controlling security context and runtime. - Execution control list (ECL) to allow or deny execution of custom code. - Access control lists (ACLs) to control user access to databases. - User-level access control based on ACLs. - Central management of client ECLs through policies. - Code signatures in ECLs to prevent execution of external code. - Central control over user exceptions to the ECL.