Working with Entities

About entities
Entities provide you with intuitive, conceptual views on top of various categories in your data. They reflect the relational complexity between categories of data that is present in the Oracle Endeca Server's flat data model, but that is not immediately visible.

Entity operations
The following table lists the entity-related operations in the Entity and Collection Configuration Web Service.

semanticEntity general syntax
The semanticEntity complex type defines an entity and all its attributes.

Sample entity requests
This topic includes examples of requests for listing, adding, deleting, and validating entities.