Mastering Rational XDE

Rational's eXtended Development Environment (XDE) is a new UML modeling tool. Unlike its predecessor, Rational Rose, a freestanding software modeling product, XDE installs in the two most popular platform's development environments (Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET and IBM's WebSphere) so that programmers can model and develop software (with VB, C#, or Java) within a single environment. XDE has broadened the market for modeling software to include programmers, as well as software engineers. XDE does more than produce software models: It automatically generates code based on a model. For engineers who are interested in modeling only, a freestanding version of XDE is available.