IBM Rational Software Modeler (RSM 7.5)

Feature

Benefit

Comprehensive UML2.0 and Domain Specific Modeling support

Modeling that fits your business, your development process, and your role. Work with full UML, with a subset of UML,with a specialized dialect of UML, with "pure" domain specific modeling languages, or with a mix of them all

UML 2.0 allows you to capture and communicate all aspects of an application architecture using a standard notation that is recognized across all of IT. The UML support is level 2.1, supports 100% of UML concrete syntax (semantics), and most of UML abstract syntax (notation) including Use Case, Class, Sequence, Activity, Composite Structure, State Machine, Communication, and Component diagrams among others,

Simplified diagramming using free-form diagrams, topic diagrams and browse diagrams

Automatically document, communicate design elements captured in UML or other conceptual models, as well as implementation artifacts such as Java classes

Visual modeling with content assistance

Offers productivity accelerators such as on-canvas action bars, connection handles, and content assist coupled with the ability to configure the drawing environment via viewpoints, configurable palettes, and other mechanisms make it quick and easy for you to create design models of your applications

Create and leverage custom pattern and transformations

Capture and promote "recipes" to

• increase the predictability and repeatability of your software development
• deliver solutions faster
• reduce costs of both initial development and testing and lifetime maintenance.

Included authoring capabilities let custom transformations be created quickly so you can see the benefits of "developing for re-use". The pattern and transformation runtimes and supporting GUI enable the other members of your teams to readily use those assets ("developing with re-use")

Establish traceability from requirements through implementation.

Navigate, and analyze impacts of proposed changes with a requirements – to – code traceability infrastructure to give you the tools to manage your software projects more effectively and manage risk.

Drag-and-drop user interface components, point-and-click database connectivity

Leverage existing skills and shorten the Java learning curve

Requirements perspective for browsing requirements in Rational RequisitePro software and creating links to model elements

Simplify the creation of traceability links from the requirements stage through the design stage

Open application program interface (API) to support customizing and extending the modeling environment; UML profile creation and editing to customize the properties stored in UML models

Develop plug-ins and customize the analysis and design tools for their environment and process. Supports the creation of an ecosystem allowing vendors to develop integrations

HTML, Portable Document Format (PDF) and XML reports generated from UML designs

Create reports and documentation that can be reviewed by team members or other stakeholders

Team support: multi-model support, model decomposition, compare merge, Rational Asset Manager, Rational Team Concert and SCM integrations.

Provides all the capabilities required to support collocated and distributed teams in designing and developing applications. Formally supported SCM solutions are Rational ClearCase, Rational Team Concert, and CVS.. Other SCM solutions, while not supported by IBM, may work provided that their creators provide Eclipse plugins that make proper use of the Eclipse Compare framework
Integrate with Rational Asset Manager repository for effective collaboration and communication of your patterns, frameworks and other collaborative software development assets.