IBM® Rational® Rose products put Rational on the map and helped make Unified Modeling Language (UML) a standard. You can design software using UML v1.4 with the market-leading Rational Rose family of visual modeling design tools.
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| Compatibility and pricing | Developer for UNIX | Developer for Java | Technical Developer | Developer for Visual Studio |
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| Description | Provides the industry-leading model-driven development tool | Model-Driven Development for Java and J2EE | A model-driven development solution automating design-to-code translation for Java, C and C++ | Model-Driven Development for Microsoft VisualStudio 6 |
| Operating system | Windows, HP Unix, Sun Solaris | Windows, HP Unix, Sun Solaris | Windows, HP Unix, Sun Solaris | |
| Licensing | Authorized user and floating user license | Authorized user and floating user license | Authorized user and floating user license |
| Key features | Developer for UNIX | Developer for Java | Technical Developer | Developer for Visual Studio |
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| RUP for systems engineering support |  |
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| Borland JBuilder versions 7.0 through 10.0 | Solaris™ and Linux®, only | |
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| Microsoft Visual Studio 6 | |
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| Class, Component, Deployment, Sequence, Statechart, Use Case | |
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| ANSI C++ | |
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Rose C++ | |
| Web publishing and report generation | |
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| Capsule structure diagrams | |
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| Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 | MSVC++ | MSVC++ | ||
| Visual C++ 6.0 | |
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| Ada, CORBA IDL and MIDL, XML DTD | |
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| J2SE, J2EE | Java SE 1.4 EJB 1.2 | Java® SE 1.4 with some 1.5 features EJB 1.2 | RTJava and J2ME support | |
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| Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 | MSVC++ | MSVC++ | ||
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| Sun Forte for Java Community and Enterprise Editions 3.0 | Solaris and Linux, only | |
| Compatibility and pricing | Modeler | Data Modeler | Enterprise |
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| Description | Modeling tool for analysts and software architects | Accelerates database design by providing a sophisticated visual modeling environment | A visual modeling and development tool using the Unified Modeling Language |
| Operating system | Windows, HP Unix | Windows, HP Unix, Sun Solaris | Windows |
| Licensing | Authorized user and floating user license | Authorized user and floating user license | Authorized user and floating user license |
| Key features | Modeler | Data Modeler | Enterprise |
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| RUP for systems engineering support | |||
| Borland JBuilder versions 7.0 through 10.0 | | ||
| Target platform Deployment: RTOS, embedded... | |||
| UML 1.x | |
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| Real-time specializations: capsules, protocols, ports, connectors | |||
| Microsoft Visual Studio 6 | VB6 | ||
| Class, Component, Deployment, Sequence, Statechart, Use Case | |
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| Physical storage and deployment diagrams | Rose C++ | ||
| Physical Data and tables | |
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| ANSI C++ | | ||
| Web publishing and report generation | |
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| Print diagrams | |
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| Merge changes | |
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| Data modeling | |
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| Repository / CM | |
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| Full executable generation | |||
| Patterns | |
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| Collaboration | |
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| SoDA Integration | |
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| Eclipse 3.0 plug-in Integration | |||
| Capsule structure diagrams | |||
| Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 | MSVC++ | ||
| Visual C++ 6.0 | | ||
| Ada, CORBA IDL and MIDL, XML DTD | | ||
| J2SE, J2EE | Java SE 1.4 with some 1.5 features EJB1.2 | ||
| JSP | | ||
| Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 | MSVC++ | ||
| J2EE deployment | | ||
| Sun Forte for Java Community and Enterprise Editions 3.0 | MSVC++ |
