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<p>In Apache Isis every domain object is either a domain entity, a view model or a domain service. And each of these are made up of properties, collections and actions (domain services only have actions).</p>
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<p>For each of these domain types and members there are two annotations. One covers the semantics intrinsic to the domain (eg whether an action parameter is optional or not), then other (suffix <code>&#8230;&#8203;Layout</code>) captures semantics relating to the UI/presentation layer.</p>
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<p>The table below summarizes these most commonly used annotations in Apache Isis.</p>
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<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock"><a href="../Action.html" class="page"><code>@Action</code></a></p></td>
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<p>Domain semantics for actions</p>
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<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Domain</p></td>
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<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock"><a href="../ActionLayout.html" class="page"><code>@ActionLayout</code></a></p></td>
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<p>User interface hints for actions</p>
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<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock"><a href="../Collection.html" class="page"><code>@Collection</code></a></p></td>
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<p>Domain semantics for collections</p>
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<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock"><a href="../CollectionLayout.html" class="page"><code>@CollectionLayout</code></a></p></td>
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<p>User interface hints for collections</p>
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<p>Domain semantics for domain object (entities and optionally view models, see also <code>@ViewModel)</code></p>
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<p>User interface hints for domain object (entities and optionally view models, see also <code>@ViewModelLayout)</code></p>
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<p>Class is a domain service (rather than an entity or view model)</p>
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<p>User interface hints for domain services</p>
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<p>Domain semantics for action parameters</p>
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<p>Layout hints for an action parameter (currently: its label position either to top or the left).</p>
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<p>Domain semantics for properties</p>
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<p>Layout hints for a property</p>
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<p>Specify that a class is a view model (as opposed to an entity or domain service); equivalent to <code>@DomainObject(nature</code>=VIEW_MODEL).</p>
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