Rational XDE Developer - Java
Platform Edition Tool Mentors
Rational XDE is a graphical component modeling and development tool that
uses the industry-standard Unified Modeling Language (UML).
The following tool mentors are for the Rational XDE Developer - Java
Plaform Edition, but the non-Java specific parts of these tool mentors
can also be used with Rational XDE Modeler.
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Overview
Rational XDE Developer - Java Platform Edition, combines your design and Java
development into a tightly integrated environment. This single environment avoids
the need to switch between tools outside of that environment.
Rational XDE improves the manner in which you work in many ways. For example,
it allows you to:
- Move from analysis and design all the way to code within the same environment.
- Specify manual or automatic synchronization between your model and your
code.
- Define both code templates and model templates to save time and help enforce
standards.
- Create both UML and freeform models and validate models for UML compliance.
- Build multiple models within the same project that can be traced to one
another.
- Reuse defined patterns to share code across your team.
Rational XDE Developer - Java Platform Edition can be used with either of
the following Websphere Studio platform products:
- IBM Websphere Studio Workbench (WSW)
- IBM Websphere Studio Application Developer (WSSAD) - similar to WSW but
includes additional features for Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and
Web services development.
Both are tool integration and development environments composed of perspectives,
views, editors, menus, and other building blocks for the Rational XDE environment.
Typically, you use several perspectives:
- The Java perspectives contain Java editors, class viewers, and several other
editors.
- The Modeling perspective contains the Model Explorer, Toolbox, and other
views.
Rational XDE performs almost exactly the same in both product environments.
Some minor differences are noted in the tool mentors.
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