Netsilon is a comprehensive visual model-driven environment for e-business application automation. Netsilon is promoting agile modeling, and web product line software engineering using MDA concepts and vision.

 

Netsilon combines a UML modeler and an application generator. The various aspects of e-business software systems are captured in business models (business objects and rules), navigation models (the application cinematic) and presentation models (look and feel elements, designed with 3rd party web authoring tools), while a powerful action language (with OCL and Java-like semantics) allows to combine all these modeling elements together. Data persistence is automated by Netsilon. Business objects are made persistent using the underlying facilities of relational databases.

Netsilon ensures consistency and synchronization among these three types of models (which may evolve independently from each others) during the complete lifecycle and automates code generation and deployment. Models are totally platform independent. At generation time, parameters specify the desired deployment configuration.

Netsilon encourages model-component reuse among applications. Components can be either parts of business solutions (real estate, finance...) of provide transversal web pervasive services (profiling, tracking, alert management...).