This information can then be sent to a central database that may be used by the company directory application or any other application that requires employee information. The data is synchronized across all company locations using the replication capabilities of Notes. Because Domino is also a mail server, you can use the application to send e-mail notifying employees and customers about the new address. Notes can replicate changes in data fields across all OLE-registered applications. For example, if you update an address field in a Notes database, that same change will be made to the corresponding field in a document created in other applications.
Data exchanges can occur in the opposite direction as well.
You can also add Java and ActiveX objects to Notes applications and run them from within a browser or the Notes client. Using Notes, there's not much you can do with Java and ActiveX that can't be done in various other ways. However, look for Java to become a much bigger part of Notes in the future. Lotus BeanMachine comes bundled with Notes Designer. BeanMachine is an interactive visual Java authoring tool that lets people who aren't programmers quickly develop applets for adding multimedia and live data to a Domino web site or intranet.