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Here is a quick post on how you can add a XPage to the Sidebar in the Notes Client. Currently this is the only way you can put a XPage in the Sidebar, the other way may be in the future.

So lets start. Take any Composite Application and from the main menu select Actions - Edit Application.

This will open the application in the Composite App Editor. And here we're going to add a XPage Component that has been configured for wiring events (for more on this try this Wiki post). On the Component Palette select to add a new NSF Component.

Name and select the XPage Component from any application, and select OK.

 With the component now created, drag and drop this component from the Palette to the Sidebar.

You can save your changes as they are and your XPage will now appear in the Sidebar, but we're going a step further and wire up the publish and receive events.

With the desired page of the Composite App open, right mouse click on the XPage component in the Sidebar and choose the option Edit Wiring.

 Using the wiring page... 

...wire up the publish and receive events.

Save and close the application in the Composite App Editor. 

Launching the Composite App the XPage component will now display in the side bar.

 And the wiring will work from here too.