Understanding the different entity types in a Mendix domain model
In this section, you will learn about the different entity types in a Mendix domain model. Terms such as persistable and non-persistable objects will be explained in detail. You will create entities and adjust common entity properties in your app's domain model. The data architecture of your app is important for ensuring that you are creating the right types of data objects to store information in a meaningful way.
In the introductory section of this chapter, entities were referred to as objects. These represent the objects from the real world in your application, such as customers or members, videos, and rentals. If you are coming from the Structured Query Language (SQL) world, you may refer to these as tables with records and use them as objects in your code when the record is consumed in your app. If you are coming from the business side, you may have represented an object of data in an Excel worksheet with...