IBM software architect kit

Reduce IT complexity with software development tools from IBM

Jan 2006
Updated May 2007

This complimentary kit for IT architects provides a collection of materials that can help you use IBM tools -- designed to unify all aspects of design and development.

Explore the benefits of using:

• Model-driven development and Model-Driven Architecture
• Patterns-based development
• Structural review and control
• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

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In this kit

Grady Booch podcast series:

• Current trends in software architecture
• The role of the architect
• Architectural styles and patterns
• The future of software architecture

Webcast:

• Scaling the business of global architecture and design: Explore new capabilities in Rational Software Architect, V7

White paper:

• Introduction to modeling

Demos:

• Browse and topic diagram creation
• Static sequence diagram creation
• Architectural discovery diagrams
• Structural analysis
• Code review
• J2EE development using UML transformations

developerWorks articles and other resources:

• Good modeling, good governance
• An introduction to architecture management
• Evolution of developer skills is essential for job survival
• UML in support of model-driven development (MDD)
• An introduction to Model-Driven Architecture (MDA)
• Gain an edge in patterns-based development using Rational Software Architect