Rational Software Architect
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| Developer(s) | Rational Software |
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| Stable release |
V9.5 / September 18, 2015
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| Written in | Java/C++ |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X |
| Available in | French, Korean, Chinese-Simplified, Spanish, German, Portuguese-Brazilian, Chinese-Traditional, Hungarian, English, Japanese, Italian |
| Type | Integrated development environment |
| License | IBM EULA |
| Website | www-03 |
Rational Software Architect is a modeling and development environment that uses the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for designing architecture for C++ and Java EE (JEE) applications and web services. Rational Software Architect is built on the Eclipse open-source software framework and includes capabilities focused on architectural code analysis, C++, and model-driven development (MDD) with the UML for creating applications and web services.
Rational Software Architect is a family of three products:
Rational Software Architect version 7.5 includes the following capabilities:
It also has integrations with other Rational tools, such as ClearCase version control and ClearQuest configuration management.
All Rational software products, including Rational Software Architect (RSA), are engineered as plugins that sit on top of the open-source Eclipse development platform. Installing Rational Software Architect gives the developer the option to either install RSA on top of an existing Eclipse v3.2 installation, or to install a new Eclipse v3.2 instance.
Since RSA is Eclipse-based, it can take advantage of the market of third-party plugins for Eclipse, as well as plugins specifically for Rational tools.
Rational Software has a long history in application modeling, beginning in the early 1990s with the work of Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh and Ivar Jacobson. They combined competing modeling approaches to form what eventually became the Unified Modeling Language.
Rational Software's first visual modeling and development tool was Rational Rose, a stand-alone modeling tool that integrates at the application programming interface (API) level with third-party Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) to support a variety of programming languages and other implementation technologies.
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