> Thank you David for the refresher. There were a
> couple of subtleties that I hadn't been taking
> advantage of. However, I'm still a bit confused on
> the answer to my question. The link says that "The
> idea of a view-entity is the same as the idea of a
> view in Oracle". Does this mean that the concept
> works the same way but that only Ofbiz can take
> advantage of the view-entity definition or does it
> mean that it actually creates a view in the underlying
> database that the database manages and therefore can
> be used by other applications that use the database
> directly?
>
> --- David E Jones <
[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>
http://incubator.apache.org/ofbiz/docs/entity.html#View_Entity_Modeling>>
>> On Nov 8, 2006, at 3:03 PM, Chris Howe wrote:
>>
>>> Is the view-entity supposed to create actual views
>> in
>>> a database? (eg
>>> CREATE VIEW view_name AS
>>> SELECT column_name(s)
>>> FROM table_name
>>> WHERE condition
>>> )
>>