The framework definition and configuration objects both manage persistent aspects of the Service framework. Framework instance objects manage the transient aspects of the Service framework by holding the current in-memory state of a given framework object in a running web application within a browser.
Instance objects are loaded first from the configuration object by the same identifier. If no configuration object exists for the requested identifier, the instance object is loaded from the corresponding definition object. When a configuration object exists, it may not override every field in the underlying definition object, in which case unspecified attributes derive from those of the definition object.
Below is a brief summary of the instance objects.
