Rational XDE Download: IBM Rational Rose XDE Developer is a complete visual design and development environment that lets you work within the Eclipse IDE, or in IBM WebSphere, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, and other leading Java IDEs. Download your free trial evaluation copy here.

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from IBM Corp. First published at IBM developerWorks

The IBM Rational Rose XDE product family combines the rich heritage of the award-winning IBM Rational Rose family with IBM Rational XDE, which extends your IDE with the world's most advanced software modeling capabilities. Though packaged and purchased together, Rose and XDE are installed separately. They can be used in combination, with some limitations, but most users will benefit from primarily using one or the other.

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IBM Rational Rose XDE Developer editions offer software designers and developers a rich set of model-driven development and runtime analysis capabilities for building quality software applications. They offer complete visual design and development environments that address the needs of organizations targeting both J2EE-based and .NET-based systems. Our solution allows users to work inside the included Eclipse IDE, or it can be installed into the IBM® WebSphere™ Studio Application Developer and Integration Edition IDEs, and Microsoft® Visual Studio™ .NET. Rational Rose is also included to integrate with Microsoft® Visual Studio™ and other leading Java™ platform IDEs. The IBM Rational Rose XDE Developer products extend your development environment or integrate with the one you are already using.

Rational Rose XDE Modeler enables architects and designers to practice model-driven development with the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML). Such users can produce platform independent models of software architecture, business needs, reusable assets, and management-level communication. Industry standard UML support and a powerful pattern engine allow users to create a semantically rich application architecture that meets business needs and is readily understood by the development team. Architects and designers can use Rational Rose XDE Modeler's multi-model support to separate concerns of analysis, architecture, design and implementation. Developers can use architectural models and patterns as the basis for implementation, thereby accelerating the development of applications to conform to their architecture. Further, features such as free-form modeling, Web publishing and reporting allow users to share architecture and designs with all stakeholders, whether or not the stakeholders use Rational Rose XDE Modeler.

Rational Rose XDE Developer also allows data architects and DBAs to create logical and physical data models for DB2, Oracle, Sybase, and SQL Server databases. Architects can follow a top-down approach, creating a logical model of data requirements, transforming it into a physical database design, and then deploy that design to a database. Or start from an existing database and reverse engineer the schema into a physical data model. Sophisticated "Compare and Synch" capabilities allow you to compare a physical data model to a database, and reconcile differences. Further, since the data modeling capabilities share the same environment as the application modeling environment, it is easy to keep data models and application models in synch.

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