I think a model of the data is where the entities are defined, is best.
Scott Gray sent the following on 8/21/2011 6:39 AM: > What does everyone think about moving the ton of demo data living in > ecommerce out to the components where the entities are defined? > > My main motivation for asking about this is for testing to ensure that we can > run all the framework and application tests even when all special purpose > components are removed. With the increasing number of special purpose apps > containing extend-entity definitions I'm concerned about the possibility of > the base applications developing dependencies on that extended data model, > unintentionally or otherwise. > > We already have plenty of framework code that depends on base application > entities and I'd hate to see the situation get worse with dependencies in the > base apps or framework on the special purpose data model. > > I'm willing to move the data so this isn't one of those conversations where > nothing will actually get done. > > Thanks > Scott >
