HCL just open sourced a number of Domino templates! This initiative of HCL was announced by Richard Jefts to support a more open and vibrant developer community. Main purpose is to allow developers and partners to extend, modify and tweak the product templates, reuse parts of the code in own solutions and allowing those modified versions to be redistributed. Now with the the Apache 2.0 license this will be possible. Also it is now possible to update these templates outside of product releases in a more consistent way if necessary.

Good news for developers and partners out there who work on plugins and extensions for Domino. We just published a new version of the C API Toolkit, actually the first new version since more than 7 years. This is the first HCL shipment of the C API and it signals an ongoing commitment to revamp the C API delopment story, it now supports building applications using the GUI environment for Visual Studio 2017.