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Wendy and Mike Boggs authored Mastering UML with Rational Rose and Mastering UML with Rational Rose 2003, both for Sybex. Wendy, a Rational Rose certified instructor, has provided consulting services in object--oriented analysis, design, and modeling to firms, such as Toyota, Electronic Data Systems, and ADP. Mike is a project manager with extensive object--oriented design experience. He has managed large--scale projects and advised organizations in the adoption of an object--oriented methodology.

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Modeling and Development More Tightly Integrated ThanEver

Rational XDE cures many of the headaches of applicationmodeling and development by bringing the two processes closer together than everbefore. Mastering Rational XDE shows you how to get maximum relief usingthis powerful tool, which lets you model within your preferred IDE, generate codeautomatically, and maintain tight synchronization between model and code at alltimes. One of the keys that unlocks this enormous power is the large exampleproject that runs through Mastering Rational XDE, divided into a series ofexercises that teach you to create use case and analysis models, move fromanalysis to design, create databases, publish and report models, and apply andcreate patterns. By working through this book, you'll be able to developsophisticated, flexible object-oriented applications that are efficient tomaintain and upgrade. Coverage includes:

• Understandingthe role of XDE in the software development life cycle
• Understanding how XDEworks with your IDE
• Creating an analysis model
• Creating a designmodel
• Creating a data model
• Generating code, including classes,attributes, operations, relationships, and components
• Keeping your code andmodel in sync
• Publishing a model and generating reports
• UsingGang-of-Four patterns in an XDE model
• Creating and using a Reusable Asset Specification (RAS)
• Creating and using your own patterns