It’s been more than a year since the last major releases of Lotus Notes and Domino. During this time Windows XP Professional, most other web application development and enterprise workflow environments have incremented their version numbers by at least one (and Microsoft’s Visual InterDev has leapt from 1.0 to 6.0). Lotus Notes, the grandfather of them all, has been steadily trudging its way through a series of betas that would be considered version numbers if they were any other Internet-related product, and has finally arrived at version 5, or Release 5 (R5). R5 features a host of cosmetic and user interface upgrades, as well as security and enterprise data access improvements. Domino (formerly Notes server) is reputed as an impressive and powerful enterprise workflow and messaging server. In R5, the Domino server takes important steps toward becoming a first-class web application server. Most significantly, Domino now serves Java applets (created in Domino Designer) to web clientsâ€"thus, providing much of the Notes client functionality without requiring the installation and user training that have traditionally been the downside of using a fat client application. Domino (formerly Notes server) is reputed as an impressive and powerful free practice exam questions and messaging server. In R5, the Domino server takes important steps toward becoming a first-class web application server. Most significantly, Domino now serves Java applets (created in Domino Designer) to web clientsâ€"thus, providing much of the Notes client functionality without requiring and user training that have traditionally been the downside of using a fat client application. You can also use Domino Administrator to do replication; server configuration; database, file, and application management; server monitoring; and message tracking. Using message tracking, administrators can check the status of mail messages by criteria such as sender, message size, subject, date sent, and so forth. Lotus Notes and Domino R5 contain many security improvements and support for a variety of standard protocols. You can send secure e-mail from a Notes client to a non-Notes client using x.509 V3 certificates and S/MIME. Domino supports the Common Data Security Architecture (CDSA) for ap'plication security, and password recovery has been simplified. When you’re browsing Notes forms or databases, the results of clicking these browser-like buttons (particularly the Back button) can be counterintuitive because Notes is not a web browser. For example, if you click the Back button after entering the contact database from the main menu, you are not taken back to the main menu. Instead, you are taken back to the last database or document you opened. This new way of navigating Notes is consistent with the tabbed windows from previous versions, though, and users upgrading from an earlier version of MCSA CertificationNotes will love Notes R5.
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