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Hello World: Rational Software Architect

Design a simple phone book application

Tinny Ng (tng@ca.ibm.com), Advisory Software Developer, IBM Toronto

Tinny Ng is a scenario architect at the IBM SWG Scenario Analysis Lab, whose mission is to improve the cross-brand integration capability of IBM SWG products. She has more than 10 years of experience in software development, from design to implementation, including application building, packaging, testing, and support.
(An IBM developerWorks Contributing Author)

Summary: Welcome to the first tutorial in the "Hello, World! Series", which will provide high-level overviews of various IBM software products. This tutorial introduces you to IBM Rational Software Architect, and highlights some basic features of Rational Software Architect with a hands-on exercise. Learn how to design an application using UML diagrams, publish the model information into a Web page, and transform the design to Java code using Rational Software Architect.

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Date: 05 May 2006
Level: Introductory
PDF: A4 and Letter (703 KB | 24 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Designing a phone book application

In this exercise you'll design a very simple phone book application, as shown in Figure 3, that stores user entered phone numbers to be retrieved later.

Figure 3. Phone book application

To begin:

Start Rational Software Architect if it's not already started: From Windows select Start > Programs > IBM Rational > IBM Rational Software Architect v6.0 > Rational Software Architect.
A window appears asking for the workspace directory. Select OK to accept the default.

Creating a UML project

First create a UML project named MyPhoneBookUMLProject:

From the workbench, select File > New > Project > Other.
Select UML Project and then select Next.
Enter MyPhoneBookUMLProject as the project name, and select Next.
Enter Phone Book UML Model as the file name of the UML Model, uncheck the box Create a default diagram in the new model, then select Finish.