E20-405 Exam : Important Notes

E20-405 Content Management Server Programming Exam

DFC General Overview

• Webtop components can make DFC calls as modern clients include DFC calls.
• IDfClient is one DFC Interface
• The DFC PIA is NOT automatically installed during DFC installation, The DFC installler has an option for installing the DFC PIA installer. The option is unchecked by default.
• DCTM.jar contains a manifest that includes references to several JAR files, that also includes dfc.jar
• A Connection Broker is NOT required in order to establish a session between DFC application and content server.

Clients and Sessions

• DFClientX objects should be instantiated with new operator.This is one of the rare cases where you need to use the new keyword rather than a factory method.

DFC Type and Related Interfaces

• IDfPersistetObject interface provides the ability to save() objects to the repository.
• IDfPersistetObject can be used when creating repository objects that have content.
• IDfFolder interface is used when working with both cabinets and folders.(i.e. there is no separate interface for cabinet)
• IDfTypedObject provides basic functionality for both persistent and non-persistent objects.
• Hierarchy in the DFC object model (Interface) is
• IDfDocument >>>IDfSysObject>>> IDfPersistetObject>>>IDfTypedObject

Retrieving Objects

• Hierarchy in the document object model
• dm_category inherits from dm_folder, which in turns inherits from dm_sys_objects

Virtual Documents

Search

Security

Operations

Exceptions and Error

Logging and Tracing

Working with Business Processes

Server Methods

BOF (Business Object Framework)

TBOs

• To provide an interface for a custom type that gets instantiated using DFC methods such as getObject(), This can be accomplished by creating a TBO with an interface for the custom object type.

Aspects

SBOs

Modules

Lifecycles

Webservices