User interface
Portofino automatically generates the user interface based on your model definition. The UI's features include:

• forms (create-read-update-delete operations)
  
• navigation of relationships
• searches with flexible multiple filtering
  
• full-text searches
• workflow operations
• breadcrumbs
• read/write fields based on permissions
  
• field-level and semantic validations
• cascaded selections
• user management
• binary files upload
• interactive dashboards/portlets with drill-down
• parametric reports in pdf and other formats
  

Open-source:

• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• Apache Derby (embedded, not for production)
  

Security and permissions

• internal or external authentication&authorization
  
• single sign-on integrations:
• Java security realms
• LDAP
• MS Active Directory
• JOSSO
• Novell iChain reverse proxy
• custom
• application-level security based
• workflow state-driven authentication
  

Supported models

• data (see below)
  
• workflows (see below)
  
• permissions
• portlets
• reporting
• calculated attributes
• constraints
• operations
  

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Data modeling features

• classes (entities/tables)
• attributes (columns) of eight different types
• blobs for binary documents and images
  
• one-to-one and one-to many relationships
• flexible many-to-many relationships through intersection classes (also with attributes on the intersection class)
• inheritance
• modeling done at the logical level
• automatic mapping to six database technologies
• real-time database schema changes (DDL)
  

Workflow modeling features

• finite-state-machine (FSM) model
• states
• transitions
• guards (conditions to enable/disable transitions)
• custom workflow actions
• automatic email notifications
• flexible permissions based on state/attribute/user

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