16. What is the difference between inline lov and external lov?

Ans: Inline lov is a lov that is used only for that particular page for which it
was created and cannot be used by any other page.
External lov is a common lov that can be used by any page. It is a common component
for any page to use it. It can be used by giving the full path of the love in the
properties section “External LOV” of the item.

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17. What is a JavaBean?
JavaBeans is an object-oriented programming interface that lets you build re-
useable applications or program building blocks called components that can be
deployed in a network on any major operating system platform.

18. What is query Bean?

QueryBean is used to execute and return the results of a query on behalf of the
QueryPortlet application.

19. What is the difference between auto customization criteria and result-based
search?
Results-based search generates search items automatically based on the columns on
the results table.

In Autocustomization search we need to set what all fields are required to display
as search criteria.

20. What is MDS?

MDS is a MetaData Service. When a web page is broken into small units like buttons,
fields, etc they are stored in a database. These are not stored as binary files but
as data in tables. The data are present in JDR tables. MDS provides service to
store & return page definitions. MDS collects those definitions in
components/fields in a meaningful manner to build a page.

21. What is XML?

XML is a markup language for documents containing structured information.

Structured information contains both content (words, pictures, etc.) and some
indication of what role that content plays (for example, content in a section
heading has a different meaning from content in a footnote, which means something
different than content in a figure caption or content in a database table, etc.).

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22. What is the difference between customization and extension?
Customization is under direct user control. The user explicitly selects between
certain options. Using customization a user can:

Altering the functionality of an application

Altering existing UI
Altering existing business logic
The extension is about extending the functionality of an application beyond what
can be done through personalization. Using extension we can:

Add new functional flows

Extend or override existing business logic
Create a New application/module
Create a New page
Create New attribute
Extend/Override defaults & validations
23. What is Personalization?
Personalization enables you to declaratively tailor the UI look-and-feel, layout,
or visibility of page content to suit a business need or a user preference. Using
Personalization we can:

Tailor the order in which table columns are displayed.

Tailor a query result.
Tailor the color scheme of the UI.
Folder Forms
Do Forms Personalization
24. Can you extend every possible Application Module?
Ans: No. Root AM cannot be extended.

25. What is rootAM?

The application module which is associated with the top-level page region (the
pageLayout region) is the root application module.

26. Why can’t Root AM be extended?

The root AM is loaded first and after that, the MDS Substitutions are parsed.
Hence ROOT AM gets loaded even before the time the substitutions definition from
the MDS layer gets worked out.
Obviously, the root am cant substitute itself, hence it can’t be extended

27. What are different methods for passing parameters?

Tokens

eg. vname={@AttributeName}

Hash Maps
eg. HashMap variablename=nre HashMap();
variablename.add(“ParameterName”,ParameterValue);

ThroughSession
eg. pageContext.putSessionvalue(“ParamterName”,ParameterValue)

28. What for isPreparedForExecution() and executeQuery() methods used?

isPreparedForExecution function will check whether all parameters are assigned
properly and the query is ready for execution.