While you continue to have the ability to customize Notes install using tuner capabilities, the addition of Eclipse™ features and plug-ins have broadened your Notes install capabilities.

When customizing Notes installation, you work primarily in two directories, deploy and updateSite, in the supplied Notes install kit. The updateSite directory is supplied in zipped form.

During Notes install, and in addition to the IBM® Lotus® Domino® Designer and IBM® Lotus® Domino® Administrator features which appear on the feature installation panel if you are using an Allclient installation kit, the following features appear on the feature installation panel -- Lotus Symphony™, Connections (Activities), Composite Applications Editor, and Sametime®.

You can optionally edit the install manifest (INSTALL.XML) to specify how features, such as IBM Lotus Symphony, will appear on the Notes feature installation panel. For example, a feature can appear selected for install by default or not. You can also edit the install manifest to remove features from the installation panel, either to force installation or prevent that feature from being selected during install. You can also optionally remove a feature from the installation kit itself. Finally, you can customize installation to add custom or third-party features by editing the install manifest to add features for Notes install, adding related feature and plug-in JAR files to the correct features and plugins subdirectories in a customized update site, and updating the site manifest to correctly list the features in a customized update site.

• deploy directory

  The Notes install kit's deploy directory includes the following:

  • INSTALL.XML -- install manifest that lists the Eclipse features to install
  
  You can customize the install manifest to specify which features to install. You can use the install manifest to allow the user to choose installation of a given feature. You can also specify features to install, update, or remove after the initial Notes installation.

  The install manifest uses Eclipse standards, but is a file unique to Notes install. An "installfeature" attribute reflects the feature name users see on the Notes feature installation panel. Lower level "feature" statements are grouped together as a feature subordinate to a top level "install feature."

  • PLUGIN_CUSTOMIZATION.INI -- Eclipse preferences file
  • (UPDATESITE.ZIP -- Eclipse updateSite directory zip file
  
  The zipped updateSite directory includes the following:

  -- SITE.XML -- This is a registry of the features to expose for install. The site registry lists the Eclipse features available for install. It uses a unique Document Type Definition (DTD) or set of XML file conventions.

  -- features subdirectory -- This contains the (signed) feature JAR files. Features are used to organize plug-ins.

  -- plugins subdirectory -- This contains the (signed) plug-in JAR files. Plug-ins hold runtime code.

By default, the following features are included on the Notes features installation panel. You can suppress their display, and establish installation program defaults, using the install manifest.

• Composite Applications Editor
• Lotus Symphony
• Connections (Activities)
• Sametime (integrated)

Related topics

Customizing the Notes install kit
Understanding the Eclipse update site
Signing custom or third-party features and plug-ins for install and update
Reducing the Notes install kit size
Customizing the Notes install manifest for supplied Eclipse features
Customizing the Notes install manifest for new or third-party Eclipse features
Customizing Notes using a plugin_customization.ini file
Adding new features to the Notes install kit using a supplied tool
Removing features from the Notes install kit using a supplied tool

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