What is Rational XDE Modeler?
Rational XDE Modeler is a tool for modeling in the Unified Modeling Language (UML). It’s included in all the individual Rational XDE Developer products and is also available separately as a component of IBM Rational Rose XDE Modeler. Rational XDE Modeler lets you create semantically rich UML models for your architecture, business needs, and management-level communication. Developers using Rational XDE Developer can reference and generate working code from these models. Developers can round-trip-engineer changes, and architects can easily see if any architectural changes are necessary, thereby maintaining architectural integrity. Architects can use multiple-model support and cross-model impact analysis to obtain visibility of the implementation and compliance of their designs through iterations of the project, and they can quickly comprehend (on a scope that would be difficult without Rational XDE Developer) the global impact of proposed architectural enhancements.
