IBM Rational Rose

Rational Rose
Developer	Rational Software
Initial release	1994
Stable release	7.0
Operating system	Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX
Available in	English
Type	Diagram management (UML and ER)
License	IBM EULA
Website	www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-rational-rose-enterprise-7004-ifix001

Rational Rose was a development environment for Unified Modeling Language. It integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and Rational Application Developer. The Rational Software division of IBM, which previously produced Rational Rose, wrote this software.

The Rational Rose family of products is a set of UML modeling tools for software design. Rational Rose could also use source-based reverse engineering; the combination of this capability with source generation from diagrams was dubbed roundtrip engineering. ^[1] However, other UML tools are also capable of this, including Borland Together, ESS-Model, BlueJ, and Fujaba. ^[2]

The Rational Rose family allows integration with legacy integrated development environments or languages. For more modern architectures, Rational Software Architect and Rational Software Modeler were developed. These products were created matching and surpassing Rose XDE capabilities to include support for UML 2.x, pattern customization support, the latest programming languages and approaches to software development such as SOA, and more powerful data modeling that supports entity-relationship (ER) modeling.

A 2003 UML 2 For Dummies book wrote that Rational Rose suite was the "market (and marketing) leader." ^[3]

History

With the Rational June 2006 Product Release, IBM withdrew the “XDE” family of products and introduced the Rational Rose family of products as replacements.

The UML capabilities were superseded by Rational Software Architect around 2006, with Rational Rose becoming a legacy product. ^[4] As of 2011 ^[update] , the ER modelling part (Rational Rose Data Modeler) has been superseded by another IBM product—Rational Data Architect. ^[5]

As of 2025 ^[update] , IBM no longer sells Rational Rose, with all mentions except support pages being removed from the website.

See also

• Imagix 4D
• Rigi
• list of UML tools

References

1. Elfriede Dustin; Jeff Rashka; John Paul (1999). Automated Software Testing: Introduction, Management, and Performance . Addison-Wesley Professional. p.  438. ISBN   978-0-672-33384-2.
2. Stephan Diehl (May 2007). Software Visualization: Visualizing the Structure, Behaviour, and Evolution of Software. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 63. ISBN   978-3-540-46505-8.
3. Michael Jesse Chonoles; James A. Schardt (2003). UML 2 For Dummies . John Wiley & Sons. p.  380. ISBN   978-1-118-08538-7.
4. Gerard O'Regan (2006). Mathematical Approaches to Software Quality. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 106. ISBN   978-1-84628-242-3.
5. Toby J. Teorey; Sam S. Lightstone; Tom Nadeau; H.V. Jagadish (2011). Database Modeling and Design: Logical Design (5th ed.). Elsevier. p. 235. ISBN   978-0-12-382021-1.

Further reading

• Terry Quatrani (2003). Visual Modeling with Rational Rose 2002 and UML. Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN   978-0-201-72932-0.
• Wendy Boggs; Michael Boggs (2002). Mastering UML with Rational Rose 2002. Sybex. ISBN   978-0-7821-4017-0.