Data modeling in rational rose windows#

The company I work for sells an RSA-based product intended to increase RSA modelling productivity and quality. If you want to ensure a higher degree of UML conformance and/or you are already using Eclipse-based tools, look at RSA.Р”В¬redentials / disclosure: I'm an IBM certified solutions designer for RSA, and probably Sweden's leading expert on EA. The thesis work focuses on modeling methodology. It will, however, show important possibilities and scarcities of the above mentioned tools when it comes to modeling of real-time requirements and systems with real-time properties. That said, for sheer modelling power, functionality and ease of use I would go with EA. This report is not intended to serve as a tutorial for modeling in Rational Rose and Rose-RT. Instead, be prepared to make adaptations and also to make changes to your internal processes. On balance, I don't think you will find any tool that suits your specific needs out of the box. You can model nodes and devices, and that's pretty much it. Hardware is tricky in most modelling tools since it's not core to UML. I don't know whether RSA supports any frameworks or methodologies. In terms of methodology, I know EA has support for SOMF (as well as TOGAF and UPDM), but that's not the same as enforcement. Most likely the specific transformations you're after won't be supported and you'll have to construct them yourselves.Р”В«oth tools can be extended, in RSA through the Eclipse plug-in architecture and Java in EA through a proprietary model-based mechanism ('MDG Technologies') and. NET binaries, as well as record execution paths from native binaries.Р”В«oth RSA and EA support model-to-model transformations. I don't think RSA does, but I'm not certain.Р”В¬ode forward / reverse engineering: I'm not sure whether RSA offers any such functionality itself, or if it's simply a matter of using the appropriate Eclipse plug-ins.Р”В®A supports forward and reverse engineering of a dozen-odd source languages, and can reverse-engineer Java and. RSA can feel cumbersome and obsessed with details, while EA can feel lax.Р”В®A supports SoaML.

Data modeling in rational rose windows#

The GUI feels like any Windows program, quick and smooth.Р”В®MF / UML2 provides a higher degree of UML conformance than EA's database-based data model. The plug-in architecture is proprietary, so plug-ins are developed specifically for EA. Downside with Eclipse is the GUI, which is based on SWT and feels clunky and slow.Р”В®A is Windows-native and supported on Linux via Wine / CrossOver. This means you're in the Eclipse ecosystem, can run the tool on most platforms and can use any EMF and Eclipse plug-ins to enhance RSA. RSA is based on the Eclipse Modeling Framework and the UML2 layer. It's hard to do a side-by-side based on these criteria alone, but here are some general differences.