In addition, you can import Java applets that you create, download, or otherwise obtain into Notes documents. The Outline Designer is where you define the flow and structure of an application. You can use the Outline Designer to organize your application before its forms and pages are completed, or you can use it to navigate a finished application. Outlines can contain links to different types of application elements. To restructure your application's flow, you simply drag and drop the graphical representations of pages, forms, views, or framesets in the Outline window.
Outlines also support actions.
You can also access external data using LotusScript or Java classes. Lotus Notes and Domino R5 is one of the few upgrades that actually earns its integer version number change. A few years ago, Notes was a proprietary, almost closed system. Today, it has almost completely adopted industry standards such as HTML, Java, and JavaScript. Unfortunately, performance and stability are lost by such a dramatic change.