Chapter 6: Understanding Domain Model Basics
Welcome to the world of domain models! The Domain Model of the Mendix app represents the data layer of the application. When you are building an application, it is necessary to store the data for this application in some sort of structure. Mendix Studio Pro (and Studio) provides all the tools necessary to design the data structure of the app and display data in the app to your end users. Data could be things such as customer or order information and even an inventory of available videos to rent in the case of our fictional video store.
The domain model element of the module is where you visually design its data architecture. Modules can share data with each other in your Mendix app. The domain model consists of entities, which can be equated to tables in a relational database, and are also referred to as objects. These can also be referred to as transient objects in the case of entities that do not persist in the database. The domain...
