IBM is set to announce tomorrow the addition of Rational Developer to its
Rational software line.
The new application provides code transformation and compliance for a
critical Department of Defense framework, among other features.
IBM Rational Systems Developer is an Eclipse-based product that is an
integrated design and construction tool that enables software architects and
developers to create applications that are optimized for C++, Java SE and
CORBA.
Rational Systems Developer is built on top of Rational Software modeler
and provides capabilities for modeling UML 2.0. Systems
Devloper will take the UML 2.0 model and then transform it into C++, Java SE
or CORBA.
“It will take the model and transform it into code and do so in a way
that you have patterns for doing so that you can rely on,” Roger Oberg, vice president of marketing and strategy of IBM Rational, told internetnews.com. “So if it’s
in the design, it’s in the code.”
Tools for application analysis that help to improve code quality, as well as lifecycle integration with the rest of the Rational software portfolio to
improve team productivity, are a part of the Systems Developer offering.
Support for the DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) is
also a key component of Rational Systems Developer.
DoDAF is a Department of
Defense compliance requirement that among other things is supposed to ensure
common technical architectures views. Rational Systems Developer provides
support for capturing and reporting the architecture and design for DoDAF
that can be communicated across an organization.
IBM is also announcing tomorrow that eight of its business partners will
be rolling out Eclipse-based solutions for Rational software.
Those vendors
include: Wind River, EmbeddedPlus Engineering, Pathfinder Solutions,
Coverity, Galorath, PTC Windchill, Flashline and LogicLibrary. The
partner solutions are part of the ready for Rational program which was first
originally launched in October of 2004.
The release of Rational Systems Developer is the second update to IBM’s
Rational product line in as many months. At the end of December 2005, IBM announced Rational Portfolio Manager 6.2.
IBM bought Rational Software in a blockbuster $2.1 billion dollar deal in 2002 and
has been rolloing out new Rational products since 2003.