Netsilon

Netsilon is a web application modeler independent from deployment platforms : one can describe a complete dynamic web application at the analysis level without integrating any detail depending on the application server or the database server. An application model is composed of 3 different views:

• the business view, represented by a UML class diagram, describes the data involved in the web application;
• the hypertext model for representing how web pages are related together and how the web content is related to the business model;
• and the presentation view, which provides the graphic appearance.

• Application server
  • Java Servlet
  • Java JSP
  • PHP
• Database server
  • MySQL
  • Oracle
  • PostgeSQL

Netsilon Models	Netsilon Code Generator

Download Netsilon.
Download the exchange case study.
Download tutorials (in french).
A nice WIKI web application is maintained by Alain Bento.
You can find some hints about installing Netsilon and all the necessary environment for PHP/MySQL generation on the Linux (Debian) platform here.

The code generated by Netsilon has been successfully tested for security (illegal parameters passing, SQL in formulars, global variables overloading...).
To use a Netsilon generated PHP application, you need to allow global variables, which are necessary for and safely managed by generated scripts. To do so, you need to specify in your php.ini:
register_globals = On

Examples of websites developped using Netsilon are

• The registrar Domaine.fr (see the "New interface" chapter for dynamic features)
• The distributor Solinest (content can be dynamically edited)
• The TopModL (model driven engineering research project) and the Fondue Toolset (methodology supporting tool) websites are deployments of the above-mentioned WIKI.

Related Publications¹

About Netsilon

• [© Springer ; Author-distilled PDF¹] Muller, P.-A.; Studer, P.; Fondement, F.; Bézivin, J.: Platform Independent Web Application Modeling and Development with Netsilon. Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Vol. 4 Nr. 4, Best papers of the <<UML>>'03 conference, Springer, November 2005, pages 424 - 442.
• [© Springer] Muller, P.A.; Studer, P.; Bézivin, J.: Platform Independent Web Application Modeling. Proceedings of the <<UML>>'2003 - The Unified Modeling Language, Modeling Languages and Applications, 6th International Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA, October 2003, pp. 220 - 233.
• [© Springer] El Kaim, W.; Studer, P.; Muller, P.A.: Model Driven Architecture for Agile Web Information System Engineering. Proceedings of the Object-Oriented Information Systems, 9th International Conference, OOIS 2003, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003, pp. 299 - 303.

Using Netsilon

• [PDF ; INRIA] Muller P.-A., Fleurey F.; Vojtisek D. ; Drey Z.; Pollet D.; Fondement F.; Studer P.; Jézéquel J.-M.: On Executable Meta-Languages applied to Model Transformations. Model Transformation In Practice (MTIP) workshop held in conjunction with MODELS/UML 2005 conference, Montego Bay, Jamaica, October 2005.
• [PDF] Muller, P.-A.; Studer, P.; Jézéquel, J.-M.: Model-driven generative approach for concrete syntax composition. Proceedings of the Best Practices for Model Driven Software Development workshop (MDSD), October 2004.

Netsilon Online Help¹

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