About BOF: BOF’s main goals are to centralize and standardize the process of customizing. Set of functionality introduced in Documentum 5.3 that allows developers to extend the Documentum Foundation Classes (DFC). Always executes when it is supposed to, regardless of the client program. Inherits, and can extend, the implementation of…

Documentum Foundation Classes (DFC) is an object oriented application programming interface (API) and framework for accessing, customizing, and extending Documentum functionality. Documentum has implemented DFC as a set of Java interfaces and implementation classes. DFC also provides the Documentum Java-COM bridge (DJCB) to make the interfaces available in Microsoft’s Component…

  DFC Runs On : A Java virtual machine (JVM) The machine that runs Content Server.  For example, to be called from a Docbasic method as part of a workflow or document lifecycle. A middle-tier system.  For example, on an application server to support WDK or to execute server methods….

There are two modes of installation of DFC: Standalone   – Installed as a part of client application. Configured information in dfc.properties. DFC.jar placed in WEB-INF/lib dfc.properties and log4j.properties files placed in WEB-INF/classes Applications can be configured with different dfc installation. Embedded – Deployed with web application Added to WAR or…