Application development and extensibility/customization using entity modeling systems and methods

A system, comprising:

• a processor;
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium;
• and
• instructions stored on the non-transitory computer-readable medium and translatable by the processor for:
• importing a package, the package including a configured model of an entity and a file associated with the configured entity model, the file containing a property name and corresponding data type for every property of the entity;
• generating a generic model for an entity;
• importing the configured model into the generic model, the importing including adding entity building blocks of the entity associated with the configured model to the entity under development, the importing producing a model for the entity under development;
• receiving user-specified configuration information for the entity building blocks of the entity under development;
• and
• customizing, based at least in part on the user-specified configuration information for the entity building blocks, the entity under development, wherein the user-specified configuration information for the entity building blocks comprise entity building block settings under development, the customizing having no effect on the configured entity model or the entity associated therewith.

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions translatable by a processor for:

• importing a package, the package including a configured model of an entity and a file associated with the configured entity model, the file containing a property name and corresponding data type for every property of the entity;
• generating a generic model for an entity;
• importing the configured model into the generic model, the importing including adding entity building blocks of the entity associated with the configured model to the entity under development, the importing producing a model for the entity under development;
• receiving user-specified configuration information for the entity building blocks of the entity under development;
• and
• customizing, based at least in part on the user-specified configuration information for the entity building blocks, the entity under development, wherein the user-specified configuration information for the entity building blocks comprise entity building block settings under development, the customizing having no effect on the configured entity model or the entity associated therewith.