I completely agree with you, but I would use something like this - http://pastebin.com/embed_iframe.php?i=U4Fmm0t6 http://pastebin.com/embed_iframe.php?i=U4Fmm0

I completely agree with you, but I would use something like this - http://pastebin.com/embed_iframe.php?i=U4Fmm0t6 http://pastebin.com/embed_iframe.php?i=U4Fmm0t6 I don't think that just an array quite make it as a real alternative but a definition builder called from a method seems more appropriate. Also I would seperate model definition from model repository.