7 Building an Updatable Data Model With Entity-Based View Objects

This chapter describes how to build updatable view objects that cooperate automatically with entity objects to enable a fully updatable data model.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• Section 7.1, "Introduction to Entity-Based View Objects"

• Section 7.2, "Creating an Entity-Based View Object"

• Section 7.3, "Including Reference Entities in Join View Objects"

• Section 7.4, "Creating an Association-Based View Link"

• Section 7.5, "Testing Entity-Based View Objects Interactively"

• Section 7.6, "Adding Calculated and Transient Attributes to an Entity-Based View Object"

• Section 7.7, "Understanding How View Objects and Entity Objects Cooperate at Runtime"

• Section 7.8, "Working Programmatically with Entity-Based View Objects"

• Section 7.9, "Summary of Difference Between Entity-Based View Objects and Read-Only View Objects"