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Hello World: Rational Software Architect V7

Design and implement a simple phone book application (updated)

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: This first tutorial in the Hello World series has been updated for Rational Software Architect V7. Hands-on exercises walk you through every step of designing and implementing a service-oriented application using Rational® Software Architect V7, including using UML diagrams to design and model an application, publishing the model information to a Web page, and transforming the design to Java™ code. It concludes with an introduction to Rational Software Architect V7's new true round-trip engineering (RTE), which makes it possible to forward- and reverse-engineer Java code, giving you a head-start on implementing your designs.

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Date: 20 Feb 2007
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (2079 KB | 38 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Before you start

About this series

The Hello World series is for novice developers who want a high-level, hands-on overview of IBM software products. Each tutorial in the series provides simple exercises and step-by-step instructions to familiarize you with the components and use of a particular product. Upon completing a tutorial in the Hello World series you will know enough about the product to begin exploring and using it on your own.

About this tutorial

This first tutorial in the Hello World series has been updated for Rational Software Architect V7. The tutorial guides you step-by-step through the process of designing and developing a simple service-oriented application using Rational Software Architect V7. It includes practical exercises that show you how to use UML diagrams to design the application, publish the model information to a Web page, and transform the design to Java code. This tutorial concludes with an introduction to Rational Software Architect's true round-trip engineering (RTE), which supports the process of forward- and reverse-engineering Java code. The original version of this tutorial for Rational Software Architect V6 is still available. For introductions to other products that play key roles in a service-oriented architecture, see the complete list of Hello World tutorials.

Prerequisites

This tutorial is for beginning application developers and requires no experience with Rational Software Architect. Rational Software Architect V7 is built on Eclipse 3.2 and includes support for JDK 5. To get the most out of the tutorial you should have some experience using the Eclipse development environment.

System requirements

To run the examples in the tutorial you must install Rational Software Architect V7 before you begin. If you want to view the demos you must also enable JavaScript in your browser and install Macromedia Flash Player 6 or higher.