We have a solution that is used by thousands of public sector workers. The solution relies heavily on interacting with various web services provided by the tax authority, social welfare and health authorities and others. So we have a lots of Domino web service consumers and providers that require both SSL and authentication using certificates. Like many others we were aware of Domino's lack of support for TLS and SHA-2, but the web services providers were not insisting on them, so everything worked fine. Until last Friday, when one after the other turned off support for SSL v3. We could just watch as all our consumers stopped working. Despite the recent technotes (1418982 and 1687167) stating that the fix will be available in "the next several weeks", we needed a working solution immediately. We are familiar and have been using reverse proxies before. But it didn't seem they could be used in our case. A reverse proxy is often positioned in front of a server (provider), but in this case our Domino servers were clients (consumers). But, it turns out that you actually can use reverse proxy even in this use case.

This is the last part of this drag-and-drop series. So far, we have learned how to create fairly advanced drag-and-drop controls. In this last part we'll learn another technique, which, while not directly related to drag-and-drop, can help in developing applications. It is often necessary to display one, often more verbose, information to application users, while in the back-end we work with other, more terse and precise, information.

If HTML5 Sortable satisfies your needs, you are good to go. But what if you need better control of your drag and drop?

Once we have a working drag and drop control, it is time to think about sending the sorted list back to server. In order to do that, we need: a few lines of JavaScript code to read the sorted list and prepare values for sending; a call to jQuery.ajax() to send the prepared values; a REST control with PUT method that receives the values and stores them.

A 3 part series on drag and drop.

A 3 part series on drag and drop.

A 3 part series on drag and drop.

In a recent post, I wrote about how I used Twitter Bootstrap to style an XPages application and what challenges I faced when using Button core control.

I am trying to switch completely to Twitter Bootstrap for our XPages applications. I find it easy to work with, with lean and understandable CSS that is easy to modify should the need arise.