RATIONAL AT THE Rational User Conference 2002 in Orlando, Fla. this week plans to extend its support of UML application
modeling to development of applications based on Microsoft's Visual Basic.Net and ASP.Net (Active Server Pages) platforms,
according to Rational.
The Rational Extended Development Environment (XDE) will be able to support these Microsoft platforms in Rational XDE Professional
Version 2002 R2. UML models provide an industry standard notation for visualizing the design of an application, said Rational's
Roger Oberg, vice president of product marketing at Rational, in Lexington, Mass.
"Developers using Visual Studio .Net who have Rational XDE [can] now continue to do the round-trip engineering that they
had for C# in the XDE environment," Oberg said. Round trip engineering is the ability to design using UML models and associate
that to generate code in C# or Visual Basic and reverse-engineer as well, Oberg said.
Also, Rational and Object Mentor at the conference will announce Rational Unified Process guidance for Extreme Programming
(XP), to be provided via the Rational Unified Process Plug-In for XP. The plug-in will provide best practices enabling developers
to write better code by providing workflows, guidelines and other resources. Rational programming teams will be able to employ
XP techniques.
The company also is expanding its Quality by Design initiative for application testing. The initiative will be expanded
to Linux and also to embedded application development through new products called Rational Purified Plus for Linux and Rational
Purified Plus Realtime Edition, to enable runtime analysis of code. Purified Plus Realtime Edition differs from the company's
Test Realtime product in that TestRealtime looks at the functional behavior of an application and Purified Plus examines how
code is using memory and whether bottlenecks are occurring.
Test Realtime is being enhanced with support for Java, via backing of the Java 2 Micro Edition. Also at the show, Rational
and CommerceQuest will detail a testing offering for IBM MQ Series middleware. Commerce Quest will provide MQTester for Rational,
a testing offering that plugs into the Rational TestStudio suite of products.
All of the new products being unveiled at the show are to be available immediately upon announcement.
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