Rational Unveils New Generation of Industry-Leading Visual Modeling Tool for Component-Based Development; New Version of Rational Rose Makes Standards-Based Visual Modeling Accessible to Mainstream Developers.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 11, 1996--Rational Software Corp. today announced a new generation of its industry-leading Rational Rose family, which delivers powerful standards-based visual modeling capabilities to developers of enterprise applications. Rational Rose 4.0 provides a complete visual modeling solution -- from capturing business requirements through analysis and design to construction. This new generation now includes full support for the industry-standard Unified Modeling Language See UML. (language) Unified Modeling Language - (UML) A non-proprietary, third generation modelling language. The Unified Modeling Language is an open method used to specify, visualise, construct and document the artifacts of an object-oriented software-intensive system (UML (Unified Modeling Language) An object-oriented analysis and design language from the Object Management Group (OMG). Many design methodologies for describing object-oriented systems were developed in the late 1980s. ), including use cases for defining user requirements. It also offers an open application interface for easy integration with third-party tools and an accessible, intuitive user interface. "Rational Rose 4.0 unifies industry standards for visual modeling and key concepts for component-based development of enterprise and intranet applications," said Jon Hopkins Jon Hopkins writes and performs his own music, melody-led electronica. He was born and brought up in London and started playing the piano when he was five. By the age of twelve was studying piano at London's Royal College of Music. , director of visual modeling products at Rational. "With its support of the Unified Modeling Language and use cases, Rational Rose offers a rich modeling environment that can be integrated with a variety of development tools to provide a complete lifecycle solution from business process modeling through implementation." "Rational Rose continues to set a high standard for visual modeling," said Jon Roskill, director of marketing for Visual Basic at Microsoft. "As software-development projects are getting larger, timelines are getting shorter, and project requirements seem to change every day. Rational Rose 4.0 helps increase the productivity of development teams by making it easier for them to visualize the architecture of enterprise applications." "Rational Rose 4.0 enables an entirely new level of reuse for building component-based applications," said Jim Underwood Dr. Jim Underwood is a professor of management at Dallas Baptist University and the author of numerous books about business, including the best-selling More Than a Pink Cadillac: Mary Kay Inc.'s Nine Leadership Keys to Success (2003). Education
n. A metric unit of mass equal to one hundredth (10-2) of a gram. centigram one-hundredth of a gram; abbreviated cg. , a leading global provider of communications services and messaging technology. "This is resulting in a big pay-off in terms of time-to-market and developer productivity. Combined with the UML, it provides the ultimate environment for business managers to communicate their requirements to engineers. Rational Rose 4.0 is the first product that makes the power and economic benefits of object technology accessible to the mainstream developer. It represents a major step forward." Support for Industry Standards Rational Rose 4.0 enables development teams and end-users to communicate visually throughout the development lifecycle. It does this through support for graphical notations. Rational Rose 4.0 now supports the UML and use-case modeling in addition to the Booch method and the Object Modeling Technique (OMT (Object Modeling Technique) An object-oriented analysis and design method developed by James Rumbaugh. See Rational Rose. OMT - Object Modelling Technique ), which were supported in previous versions of the product. The UML is the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, for graphical development of component-based applications. It has been widely endorsed by industry leaders, including Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, and MCI Systemhouse. The UML was developed at Rational by Grady Booch, Jim Rumbaugh, and Ivar Jacobson, with contributions from users and other methodologists in the industry. Support for Iterative Processes Iterative processes enable developers to dramatically reduce risk in a project by exposing it early in the lifecycle rather than at the end. Iterative processes enable developers to specify the objectives for a software system and then build and deliver a series of increasingly complete implementations. These implementations, or iterations, are working deliverables produced en route to the completion of a project. Rational Rose 4.0 supports teams implementing iterative processes by using round-trip engineering to maintain consistency at each iteration between an application's visual model and its implementation. Round-trip engineering means the ability to generate source code from the visual model of the system, to edit the source code, and then to reverse engineer the changed source code to update the design and to see the new design changes. This entire cycle can be repeated any number of times without losing information. Rational Rose 4.0 will support controlled iterative development and round-trip engineering for a variety of programming languages and 4GLs, including C++, Visual Basic, Java, Forte, PowerBuilder, Smalltalk, and Ada. Open and Extensible Scripting Language Rational Rose offers a new open, extensible scripting language that allows developers to extend Rational Rose's capabilities, create Wizards, and produce customized reports. It features a published application interface that lets developers integrate Rational Rose with their own tools and processes. Rational Rose for Windows is both an OLE Automation Server See COM automation. and a Controller. A full developer's kit, which includes a framework for round- trip engineering, is available for Rational Rose 4.0. This kit enables third-party tool vendors to easily incorporate visual modeling and round-trip engineering support into their products. Scalable Team Support Rational Rose 4.0 scales well from small projects to large, geographically distributed development teams across multiple platforms. Rational Rose allows teams to control model components using the same configuration-management system used to control project plans, documentation, source code, and test plans. In addition, it provides each developer with exclusive control within a private workspace, eliminating asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. and uncontrolled change propagation. This feature enables groups to work on large designs effectively. Intuitive Interface Rational Rose 4.0 sets a new standard in ease of use through an enhanced user interface, including a powerful browser that lets users examine their model at the level of detail appropriate for their needs. Rational Rose 4.0 offers a full Windows 95 and Windows NT look-and-feel complete with long-name support, Wizards, drag-and-drop diagram construction, context menus (right mouse button), and support for OLE linking. Integration with Other Lifecycle Tools Rational Rose is part of Rational's total lifecycle solution, which includes Rational Apex for team development, SoDA for software documentation, Rational Summit for process and project management, Rational Visual Test for integrated test management, and tools for configuration management and version control. Pricing and Availability Rational Rose 4.0 will be available in December 1996 on Windows for $2,400 (U.S. price). It will be available for major UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms (SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill , HP, Digital, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. ) beginning in January 1997 for $6,000 to $8,400 (U.S. price). Developers can download a free demo copy of Rational Rose 4.0 from www.rational.com/rose4 by the end of November 1996. Rational Software Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : RATL RATL Raising Achievement Transforming Learning (Specialist Schools and Academies Trust) RATL Renaldo and The Loaf (music duo) RATL Rapsyn-Associated Transmembrane Linker RATL Rockin' ATLanta ) develops, markets, and supports a comprehensive solution for the component-based development of software systems, based on visual modeling and object technology. Rational's solution includes an integrated family of products that automate development throughout the software lifecycle, a software process that can be configured to the specific needs of customers, and a range of consulting and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . For more information on Rational's products and services, visit Rational's Web site at www.rational.com. -0- Note to Editors: The word "Rational" and Rational's products are trademarks of Rational Software Corporation. References to other companies and their products use trademarks owned by the respective companies and are for reference purposes only. CONTACT: Rational Software Corp. Kara Kara (kär`ə), river, c.140 mi (230 km) long, NE European and NW Siberian Russia. It flows N from the N Urals into the Kara Sea, forming part of the traditional border between European and Asian Russia. It is navigable in its lower course. Myers, 408/496-3891 karam@rational.com or Samluk Communications, Inc. Mary Camarata, 510/736-8166 camarata@samluk.com |
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