ICYMI: The XPages Runtime is Now Available in IBM Bluemix

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Earlier this year, we had announced the availability of the XPages runtime as beta in IBM Bluemix. Then at IBM Connect, XPages on Bluemix was featured during the keynote where a quick app was built integrated with Watson to quickly tag / categorize images using the Watson Image Analyzer service.

So in case you missed it, earlier this week, the XPages runtime for IBM Bluemix went from Beta to full release, generally available.

This allows developers already familiar with the XPages framework to leverage the power of IBM Bluemix to quickly build powerful apps in the cloud, possibly integrated with other Bluemix services (like Watson). For added security, you can connect to your existing user directory for ID management.

It's now been a couple of days and it's been great to see the reaction over Twitter and other social channels.




If you still haven't seen XPages, To help get you up to speed on developing XPages applications on Bluemix, here is a list of videos we have published in the past.

• XPages has landed
• Boilerplate tutorial
• Designer tooling
• XPages Service
• Node.js + REST + service
• Hybrid applications

Ready to get started? Check out how to build apps with XPages for Bluemix. Can't wait to see the apps that you build!

From IBM Connect 2016: XPages App Built on Bluemix Using Watson and IBM Connections Cloud

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Last week at IBM Connect 2016, Chris Crummey demoed a sample app built on the XPages runtime running on Bluemix.

The app combines IBM Connections Cloud, IBM Watson Analytics and IBM Bluemix. The idea is that the app allows you to upload images and then uses IBM Watson (the Visual Recognition Service) to help with automatic classification of the files. Based on the image that has been uploaded, Watson will then suggest some tags to use with the file.

Here's a recap of that demo:



Here's a photo from Daniel Brix on Twitter that showed it on the big screen:

If you missed IBM Connect 2016, well, you missed a great show!  I'll share some more content from the conference in upcoming posts so stay tuned to those. For now, I quickly wanted to get this out and then work on my IBM InterConnect 2016 sessions.

XPages Runtime Beta Now Available on Bluemix

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As it's typical by this time of the year with IBM Connect just around the corner we start to hear about advancements in many of our product areas.

As you may have seen in the IBM Bluemix blog,  the XPages runtime moves from experimental and enters the BETA release phase on Bluemix.  For the last 6 months we've had the XPages runtime available on IBM Bluemix as an experimental service. Now we are taking this to the next phase as we continue to prepare for a general release later this year. 

Go and check out the beta XPages runtime and come to IBM Connect 2016 in Orlando, next week. That will be a great opportunity to learn more about the service.  If you go to the IBM Connect Session Preview Tool, you'll find plenty of sessions to meet the experts on XPages. Specifically, the following sessions will give you a strong introduction to Bluemix and the IBM XPages for Bluemix runtime:

AD1529 – IBM Domino App.Next – Broadening Your Horizons with Bluemix
AD1542 – Get Hands-On with XPages Apps for Bluemix

Check out this quick intro from Brian:

Want more ?? Brian shared more XPages on Bluemix videos in his blog announcement.

Hope to see you next week at IBM Connect 2016 next year! As per Brian's blog, please share your feedback over at dW Answers and please tag your entries with xpages-runtime.