Introduction

The most Most of the basic objects that Synapse currently supports are Entities. Each Entity has first class data that makes up the fields of an entity. All Entities also have Annotations that store additional data about an entity.

The following are the current ESynapse Entities:

• Project
• Folder
• Dataset
• Layer
• Location
• EULA

Currently, all Entities are defined by "hard-coded" Java objects. The fields of these Java objects define the first class data of each entity. The only mechanism we have for constraining data of an Entity is to write Java code to do the validation. We also lack a mechanism to constrain or define annotations.

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