Entity versus an Object

  • Article

I have been writing examples with WinFS this week.

Although you don't have to know about databases to use WinFS, databases are interesting. In the database world the term entity is pretty common, but it might be foreign to most OOP programmers. Will users understand objects of the type entity?

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 16, 2004
    I usually use the word "entity object" or "domain object".
  • Anonymous
    November 16, 2004
    Never heard the term "entity" used in this way before i started supporting MS CRM.

    How does WinFS use the term?
  • Anonymous
    November 16, 2004
    It's foreign to me...