Family Description:

IBM Rational Rose XDE products offers software designers and developers a rich set of model-driven development and runtime code analysis capabilities for building quality software applications, including web-centric solutions. It is a complete visual design and development environment that addresses the needs of organizations targeting both J2EE-based and .NET-based systems. It allows users to work inside the included Eclipse IDE, or it can be installed into the IBM® WebSphere TM Studio Application Developer and Integration Edition IDEs, and Microsoft® Visual Studio TM .NET. Rational Rose XDE is also integrated with Microsoft® Visual Studio TM and other leading Java TM platform IDEs to help reduce the effort required to comprehend and develop code and designs. Rational Rose XDE is a visual modeling solution that extends your development environment or integrates with the one you are already using.

Offerings:

• IBM® Rational® Rose XDE™ Modeler enables architects and designers to produce platform-independent Unified Modeling Language (UML) models of software architecture, business needs, reusable assets, and management-level communication.

Includes: Rational Rose Modeler, Rational XDE Modeler

• IBM® Rational Rose® Data Modeler is a unique database design tool that integrates the modeling environment with the database design environment, and tracks changes across business, application and data models.

Includes: Rational Rose Data Modeler only.

Note: Rational XDE Data Modeler to be added in SR2 in December 2003. Name to then be changed to IBM® Rational Rose XDE™ Data Modeler.

• IBM® Rational® Rose XDE™ Developer for Visual Studio provides software developers a model-driven development approach for building applications inside Microsoft® Visual Studio TM .NET and is integrated with Microsoft® Visual Studio TM . Supported languages include: VC++, C++, C#, VB, VB.NET, and ASP.NET.

Includes: Rational Rose Professional Visual Basic, Rational XDE Developer - .NET Edition

• IBM® Rational® Rose XDE™ Developer for the Java Platform provides software developers a model-driven development approach for building applications inside the included Eclipse IDE, or it can be installed into the IBM® WebSphere TM Studio Application Developer and Integration Edition IDEs. It is also integrated with other leading Java TM platform IDEs.

Includes: Rational Rose Professional J, Rational XDE Developer – Java Platform Edition

• IBM® Rational® Rose XDE™ Developer Plus offers software developers a model-driven development approach for building applications. It is a complete visual design and development environment inside the included Eclipse IDE, or it can be installed into IBM® WebSphere TM Studio Application Developer and Microsoft® Visual Studio TM .NET. It is integrated with Microsoft® Visual Studio TM and other leading Java TM platform IDEs.

Includes: Rational Rose Enterprise, Rational XDE Developer Plus (includes Rational PurifyPlus and Visual Trace)

Top reasons businesses buy Rational XDE

Rational XDE appeals to a wide audience, ranging from analysts and architects to software developers.

• Architects and analysts interested in leveraging UML and visual modeling for their projects
• Visual Studio.NET Developers who are building C#, VB.NET or ASP .NET applications
• Java developers who are using the Eclipse IDE or the IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD)
• Java developers who are not currently using an IDE

Key messages

Model with the industry leader

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has become the industry's standard notation for software architecture and design. IBM Rational led the development of the UML so that software professionals could model their analysis and design activities in a uniform, consistent manner. With the UML, you and your team have a common way to communicate and document your software.

To make the UML more practical to work with, we created the industry-leading and award-winning Rational Rose XDE family of visual modeling and development tools. The International Data Corporation (IDC) recognizes IBM Rational software as the industry's leader for Analysis, Modeling, and Design (AMD) tools.

The Rational Rose XDE family provides all of the essential elements of UML modeling in one robust product. Applicable to analysts, architects, designers, and implementers, Rational Rose XDE gives you and your team common tools for creating and maintaining UML models of your software project. They support forward and reverse engineering of code and both automatic and on-demand modes for round-trip engineering that allow you to control if, when, and how your models are synchronized with your code.

Everyone has good ideas. Having a common modeling language and an easy-to-use tool can harvest those ideas into artifacts that can be communicated and shared with the whole development team. Rational unifies your team with common modeling technology so that you can build better software faster.

Only Rational combines visual modeling, component testing, runtime analysis, and an extended developer community so that you can write higher quality code faster.

Make developing on a team easier

No one better equips you with tools, community, and best practices for team development. IBM Rational completes your development experience.