What is Portofino?
Portofino is an open-source Low-Code platform for rapidly developing and deploying business web applications. It provides a visual, model-driven approach for building applications without writing code.
With Portofino, you can visually design application data models, user interfaces, business logic, workflows, and integrate with external systems and databases using a web-based editor. It generates a full Java enterprise application and deploys it to application servers like WildFly or Tomcat with DevOps integrations.
Key capabilities include:
- Visual application modeling and coding-free development
- Generate full enterprise Java apps and REST APIs
- Connect to databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server
- Build process workflows and forms
- Rich graphical dashboards and reports
- Responsive UIs and mobile app support
- Security, authentication, and access control
- On-prem or cloud deployment
Portofino speeds up developing Line-of-Business apps, customer portals, operational dashboards, and workflow-based solutions. It can integrate with microservices and enables continuous delivery pipelines.
Portofino is open-source and developed by ManyDesigns srl of Italy under the GPL v3 license. Commercial editions with pro features and enterprise support are also available.
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