HI Atanu,
thank you for your answer.
I adapted your approach and created an configuration entity that represent a specifc configuration by defining the ordernumber (that reflects the configuration) as the key. So the EntitiySet for the configuration is virtually a collection of all possible configurations (not addressable of course). As an attribute of this entity I have a field called "status" that tells me exaclty the status of the configuration specified by the key (=order number).
Beside that I modelled entities for the characteristics and the values but again always with the order number as key.
Now I need to check if the peformance for the getEntitiy implementation as I have to gather all information again for each server roundtrip. Maybe I need to check on SharedObjects for this!.
Looking forward to your comments.
Br
Sebastian