# Service Properties

There are a few properties you can instantiate the virtual service with or set them afterwards that affect operation. Below you can see a nice chart for them:

| Property           | Type    | Required | Default                       | Description                                                                                                                                       |
| ------------------ | ------- | -------- | ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `entityName`       | string  | true     |                               | The entity name to bind the virtual service with.                                                                                                 |
| `queryCacheRegion` | string  | false    | `#entityName#.defaultVSCache` | The name of the secondary cache region to use when doing queries via this service                                                                 |
| `useQueryCaching`  | boolean | false    | false                         | To enable the caching of queries used by this  service                                                                                            |
| `eventHandling`    | boolean | false    | true                          | Announce interception events on *new()* operations and *save()* operations: *ORMPostNew, ORMPreSave, ORMPostSave*                                 |
| `useTransactions`  | boolean | false    | true                          | Enables ColdFusion safe transactions around all operations that either save, delete or update ORM entities                                        |
| `defaultAsQuery`   | boolean | false    | true                          | The bit that determines the default return value for `list(), executeQuery()` as query or array of objects                                        |
| datasource         | string  | false    | System Default                | The default datasource to use for all transactions. If not set, we default it to the system datasource or the one declared in the persistent CFC. |

So to create a virtual service you can do this:

```java
component extends="cborm.models.VirtualEntityService"{

  UserService function init(){
      super.init( entityName="User", useQueryCaching=true, eventHandling=false );
      return this;    
  }

}
```