Glossary term: Blessing

The act of assigning an additional type to a PGO or Relationship.

A PGO may be blessed with an EntityType, or several EntityTypes, which give the PGO its type(s), similarly to how a class gives an object a type in some programming languages. Unlike most programming languages, PGOs can be blessed and unblessed many times during their life time.

The Relationship from one PGO to another PGO may be blessed with a RoleType, or several RoleTypes.

Blessing also adds all Properties that correspond to the PropertyTypes defined on the EntityType or RoleType. The Properties are initialized to their default values.