In addition to utility methods and standardized properties, it defines the implementation tasks
for all Lithium classes that work with external data, such as connections to remote resources
(connect() and disconnect()), introspecting available data objects (entities() and
describe()), and a standard read/write interface (create(), read(), update() and
delete()).
Subclasses may implement any other non-standard functionality, but the above methods define the
requirements for interacting with Model objects, and other classes within lithium\data.