Chapter 8. Agents

Web applications rely on agents for server-based work. Think of an agent as a program that manipulates documents within and between applications. Agents can be simple actions specified with a wizard or they can consist of named lines of code written in Formula Language, LotusScript, or Java. These programs are stored in Domino applications and then run on-demand or automatically on a schedule. In all cases, they run within the context of an application, and from a web application point of view, they run on the server and not in the browser.

It has been said that you can do just about anything you can imagine with LotusScript, from large tasks such as accessing every application on a server to discrete tasks such as twiddling the bits in a design element's Properties. You should develop a familiarity with LotusScript regardless of your personal programming language preferences. Domino developers who came before you left a lot of this stuff lying around, and you will be called...