CHAPTER 5The Role of the Entity Object

Now that you have a working business service, you should feel more comfortable starting to experiment with the features of the entity objects you’ve just created to see how they work. This chapter looks at some of the different ways you can create, visualize, and edit entity objects and investigates and explains some of the most common features and how to use them.

Understanding Entity Objects

When learning about new technologies, you may find it helpful to map these new ideas to more familiar concepts. Therefore, as a broad generalization, you can think of each entity object as mimicking a database table inside your application. Or, to be more precise, each instance of the entity object represents a database ...

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