Support of a platform-independent model including descriptions of modeling language entities

A method comprising:

• providing a visual modeling tool and modeling language entities being entities of a language of expressing applications designed in a visual modeling language environment of the visual modeling tool, wherein the modeling language entities have a corresponding syntactic description that is in accordance with the language;
• receiving input defining an application in the visual modeling language environment, the input defining the application as a selection of the modeling language entities and a configuration of the selection;
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• generating a platform-independent model of the application based on the input and the modeling language entities, wherein the platform-independent model comprises the selection, the configuration, and a syntactic description of the modeling language entities in the selection.

A system supporting platform-independent models in visual modeling language environments, the system comprising:

• modeling language entity means for expressing applications designed in a visual modeling language environment of visual modeling means, wherein the modeling language entity means have a corresponding syntactic description that is in accordance with the language;
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• the visual modeling means for receiving input defining an application in the visual modeling language environment and for generating a platform-independent model of the application, wherein the input defines the application as a selection of the modeling language entities and a configuration of the selection;
• generating a platform-independent model of the application comprises generating the platform-independent model based on the received input and the modeling language entity means;
• and the platform-independent model comprises the selection, the configuration, and a syntactic description of the modeling language entity means in the selection.