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Roles

The core Enterprise Objects stack plays many roles. The most important roles are:

• connecting to data sources

• managing transactions with data sources

• storing snapshots of database rows

• forming enterprise objects from raw row snapshots

• creating and managing the object graph

The core stack provides a default configuration that should be appropriate for most kinds of applications. Some applications, however, may need to customize the configuration for performance or other reasons. This chapter discusses the default configuration and its common variations.

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