You will need one of the following Lotus products installed on you development and runtime systems:
You should obtain this through your normal Lotus purchasing channels. If you run Windows, be sure you have the 32 bit version of Lotus Notes installed. Because VisualAge Smalltalk Domino Connection does call external DLLs, there are some prerequisites concerning the PATH statement configuring your operating system:
Make sure the PATH and the LIBPATH statement in your CONFIG.SYS include the directory where you have installed the Domino or Notes system DLLs.
Make sure the PATH statement in your system configuration includes the directory where you have installed the Domino or Notes system DLLs.
Make sure the PATH statement in your AUTOEXEC.BAT includes the directory where you have installed the Domino or Notes system DLLs.
Make sure your notes.ini file is in the search path. It is used to retrieve information about your Domino or Notes setup.
The product installation process copies some sample databases to the \sample\domino subdirectory where your VisualAge Version 5.5 client is installed. These sample databases are used by the sample applications you will find in AbtNotesDemoApp (for pre Notes Version 4.5 style databases) and in AbtNotesDemoApp45 (for Notes 4.5 and later Notes versions). You must copy the sample databases to a subdirectory of your Domino or Notes data directory named vasample to use the sample applications. For example, if your data directory is named c:\notes\data you would create the subdirectory c:\notes\data\vasample and copy the sample databases to this directory. If you choose to install the sample databases into an other directory, you have to reconfigure the connection specifications of the sample applications to make them work.