IBM Rational® Rose® enables architects and designers to practice model-driven development with the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Industry standard UML support allows users to create a semantically rich application model that meets business needs and is readily understood by the development team. Architects and designers can use Rational Rose to model analysis, architecture, and design. Developers can use these models as the basis for implementation, thereby accelerating the development of applications.

This tool provides support for the activities of the following team members: Designer, Implementer, Integrator, Software Architect, Business-Process Analyst and System Analyst.

To gain the full benefits from this tool, users need to have the following skills:-

• Object Orientation
• Unified Modelling Language

Training for this tool can be found in the following courses:-

• Fundamentals of Rational Rose
• Essentials of Visual Modelling with UML

IBM Rational Rose provides:-

• Model-driven development with UML support
• Create platform-independent archi­tectures that can be implemented in a Java, C++, Visual Basic, Ada and many other languages
• Built-in support for Java Design and Gang-of-four patterns to create, customize
• Versioning down to the package level allow structuring to fit any project
• Maintain traceability between requirements captured in RequisitePro
• Web publishing and reporting