Modeling Entity Services
Purpose
You model entity services in order to define attributes and data types to generate tables, define table relations, and implement basic methods for reading, writing, updating, deleting, and querying data.
Prerequisites
You have opened the Composite Application Services (CAS) perspective in SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio.
Process Flow
1. You create and model entity services.
2. Within the newly created entity services, you can create the following types of attributes
○ New attributes
○ Subattributes
○ Relations to other services
See Modeling Entity Service Attributes for instructions on how to model attributes. For information on how to recognize the different attribute types in the entity service modeler, see Attribute Types.
You can also delete attributes or attribute properties after creating them.
3. You model and map operations:
See: Modeling Entity Service Operations
See: Mapping Service Operations
4. You can expose your entity services as Web services.