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Modeling with SoaML, the Service-Oriented Architecture Modeling Language: Part 5. Service implementation
The example in this final article of this series uses the IBM Rational Software Architect UM- to-SOA transformation feature to create a Web service implementation that can be used directly in IBM WebSphere Integration Developer to implement, test, and deploy the completed solution.
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04 Feb 2010 |
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How to customize your profile tooling model to support association classes
Profile tooling enables you to generate tooling from existing or
user-created profiles. This article explains how you can modify a tooling model in order to generate profile tooling code for stereotypes on association classes. Profile tooling helps enable you to generate tooling from existing or user-created profiles. Currently, it is possible to generate tooling for stereotypes and associations; however, stereotypes on association classes are not supported. This article explains how you can modify a tooling model in order to generate profile tooling code for stereotypes on association classes. Profile tooling is supported by the IBM Rational Software Architect and IBM Rational Software Modeler solutions. The instructions described in this article pertain to RSM/RSA 7.5.4 and above.
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04 Feb 2010 |
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Integrating IBM metadata repositories, Part 2: Governing the metadata lifecycle in WebSphere Service Registry and
Repository
Learn how to enable asset-based development by integrating your
applications with IBM Rational Asset Manager. In Part 2, you'll learn how to
use WebSphere Service Registry and Repository for governing the metadata
lifecyle.
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03 Feb 2010 |
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Requirements traceability verification using the IBM Rational RequisitePro and IBM ClearQuest Test Manager integration
If you're a project manager, business analyst or tester looking for ways to improve the requirements traceability of your projects, this article will show you how. Using a real-world deployment as a model, this article offers a how-to approach to integrating your IBM Rational RequisitePro and IBM Rational ClearQuest Test Manager environments. Included are best practices, troubleshooting and solutions to common issues. After outlining how to set up this integration, the collaboration benefits for key personnel such as testers, test leaders, business analysts and project managers are detailed.
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28 Jan 2010 |
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Modeling with SoaML, the Service-Oriented Architecture Modeling Language: Part 4. Service composition
This fourth article of this five-part series covers how to assemble and connect the service participants modeled in "Part 3. Service realization" and then choreograph their interactions to provide a complete solution to the business requirements. The resulting service participant will assemble the services provided by the Invoicer, Productions, and Shipper participants in a services value chain to provide a service capable of processing a purchase order. It also shows how this service participant fulfills the original business requirements.
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28 Jan 2010 |
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Results of IBM Rational Requirements Composer 2.0 performance and scalability tests
Learn how IBM Rational Requirements Composer, Version 2.0, performs with various 32-bit and 64-bit configurations. This report compares response times for configurations of varying resources and user loads.
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28 Jan 2010 |
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Message-level security with JAX-WS on WebSphere Application
Server V7: Integrating JEE authorization
In Part 1, you learned how to provide message level security using
JAX-WS on WebSphere Application Server V7, including how to use policy sets to
encrypt and sign messages, and how to use a UsernameToken profile for
authentication. In Part 2, you'll learn how to use the UsernameToken passed in
the SOAP header as the JEE principal to provide programmatic authorization in
the service provider.
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27 Jan 2010 |
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Applying Web Services Reliable Messaging (WS-RM) to a Web
service, Part 1: A hands-on approach using WebSphere Application Server V7 and Rational
Application Developer V7.5
Learn how to enable WS-Reliable Messaging by creating a Web service from
the ground up and applying WS-RM to it, using Rational Application Developer
V7.5 and WebSphere Application Server V7.
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22 Jan 2010 |
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Tips for C++ transformations using Rational Software Architect: Part 4. For Standard Edition users
Learn how to get finer control of the C++ code generated when you run the UML-to- C++ transformation in IBM Rational Software Architect Standard Edition. This article explains how to include STL classes, use the STL classes in a model, and use them to generate C++ code. It also describes how to create global variables or methods to generate finer C++ code and how to control UML-to-C++ code generation by using the mapping model.
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21 Jan 2010 |
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Modeling with SoaML, the Service-Oriented Architecture Modeling Language: Part 3. Service realization
This third article of this five-part series explains how services are actually implemented. The service realization starts with deciding which participant will provide and use what services. That decision has important implications in service availability, distribution, security, transaction scopes, and coupling. After these decisions have been made, you can model how each service functional capability is implemented and how the required services are actually used. Then you can use the UML-to-SOA transformation feature included in IBM Rational Software Architect to create a Web services implementation that can be used in IBM WebSphere Integration Developer to implement, test, and deploy the completed solution.
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21 Jan 2010 |
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Model-Driven Architecture using JET2 in Rational Software Architect or Rational Software Modeler
This article quickly introduces the reader to model-driven architecture (MDA), which takes UML modeling to the next level with JET2, the Eclipse-based Java Emitter Template. You can use templates to transform models into useful artifacts.
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21 Jan 2010 |
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How to use the Microsoft Windows firewall with IBM Rational ClearCase
This article provides details about the use of Microsoft Windows Firewall in an IBM Rational ClearCase environment. It includes information about ClearCase programs that generate security alerts in Windows Firewall. This article does not imply that the ClearCase product supports firewalls and does not cover all possible firewall configurations or products. This article is designed to be read by network administrators responsible for network communications in a ClearCase environment.
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14 Jan 2010 |
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How to integrate Rational RequisitePro 7.1 and Rational Software Architect 7.5 to trace requirements
Learn how to create use case requirements traceability by using an integration that links your Rational Software Architect and the IBM Rational RequisitePro environments. Using the process outlined in this article can help you improve requirements traceability across your organization.
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14 Jan 2010 |
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Modeling with SoaML, the Service-Oriented Architecture Modeling Language: Part 2. Service specification
In this second article of this five-part series, we continue defining the SOA solution by modeling the specification of each service in detail. These specifications will define service interfaces between consumers and providers of the service. These service interfaces include the provided and required interfaces, the roles that those interfaces play in the service specification, and the rules or protocol for how those roles interact.
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14 Jan 2010 |
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Migration from Rational Manual Tester to Rational Quality Manager
This article explains how to migrate from IBM Rational Manual Tester to IBM Rational Quality Manager. The authors introduce two migration methods: using the migration toolkit provided or exporting XML files from and then importing them into Rational Quality Manager in batch mode. They also explain the advantages and disadvantages of each method and suggest which to use in which circumstances. This article also provides other valuable information, such as XML file format for Rational Quality Manager test scripts and uses of the software.
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07 Jan 2010 |
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Silently install and configure Rational Asset Manager V7.1.1.1, Installation
Manager V1.3, DB2 V9.1, and embedded WebSphere Application Server V6.1
In an environment where security cannot be compromised, a UNIX system administrator typically disables xhost+. However, when xhost+ is disabled, you cannot use a graphical user interface (GUI) to complete installations. To work around this problem, you can use a silent installation and command line to install and configure IBM Rational Asset Manager V7.1.1.1, IBM Installation Manager V1.3, IBM DB2 V9.1, and an embedded IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1.
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07 Jan 2010 |
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Modeling with SoaML, the Service-Oriented Architecture Modeling Language: Part 1. Service identification
This article is the first in a series of five articles about developing software based on service-oriented architecture (SOA). It shows how to use UML models extended with the OMG SoaML standard to design an SOA solution that is connected to business requirements, yet independent of the solution implementation. The author describes the business goals and objectives and the business processes implemented to meet those objectives, and then explains how to use the processes to identify business-relevant services necessary to fulfill the requirements that they represent.
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07 Jan 2010 |
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Test the IBM Rational Insight Hourglass page with IBM Rational Performance Tester
In IBM Rational Insight, the Hourglass page is a complex and dynamic Web page. When IBM Rational Performance Tester runs tests for Rational Insight, the Hourglass page might cause problems. This article contains the best practices to handle the Hourglass page when you test the performance of Rational Insight.
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19 Dec 2009 |
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Rational top 10 articles from 2009
Find out which articles rank highest in terms of page views for the IBM Rational zone on developerWorks in 2009.
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17 Dec 2009 |
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Support agile development by using IBM Rational Requirements Composer
Agile software development projects often use iterative methods in the requirement definition and design phase. By using a step-by-step example, this article elaborates on how IBM Rational Requirements Composer fits into this process.
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17 Dec 2009 |
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Informal collaboration tools for global software development teams
Software development teams that include engineers around the globe are adopting informal collaboration tools to overcome communication and cultural barriers and build trust and comfort among members. This article describes the benefits of such tools in fundamental, operational, and strategic terms.
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17 Dec 2009 |
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Generate DITA Java API reference documentation using DITADoclet
and DITA API specialization
Combine DITADoclet and DITA API specialization to save time and still produce quality API documentation directly from the Java source code.
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11 Dec 2009 |
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Migrating your test data from the Rational ClearQuest test management solution to the Rational Quality Manager environment
Learn how to migrate your existing test data from the IBM Rational ClearQuest test management solution to the IBM Rational Quality Manager environment; this article reveals the prerequisites, limitations and benefits achievable when you undertake this process.
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10 Dec 2009 |
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Using a combined SOA and TOGAF environment for increased productivity: Part 1: Introduction to the TOGAF Enterprise Continuum
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) can transform organizational silos into functional groups, thereby measurably increasing productivity. At present, both the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) and SOA are unapproachable and poorly understood. To succeed, a technology must at minimum offer two things; a reference topology (the defining structure) and a reference implementation flow (the defining sequence). These artifacts must always be at hand before, during, and after a project, because they offer a primary point of reference for planning, design, implementation, maintenance, and optimization methods. Part 1 and Part 2 of this three-part series attempt to recreate the noted structures for TOGAF and SOA, respectively. Part 3 follows up with an agile process that projects both frameworks against the same wall and offers methods to exploit the unique features that TOGAF and SOA have to offer.
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10 Dec 2009 |
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How to analyze distributed assets by using IBM Rational Asset Analyzer
The first article in this series described how to use the Distributed Scanner to collect the inventory of a Java application in the Rational Asset Analyzer repository. This article describes how to explore and manage those assets.
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10 Dec 2009 |
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Automating the construction of applications and application
environments
Constructing applications and application environments is a core part of
IT in many enterprises today. Because the process of building such resources
are usually human-driven – and can therefore be time-consuming and error-prone
-- users naturally turn to technology to help automate these processes. With
many automation products available, choosing one can be daunting. This article
looks at a simple integration between IBM WebSphere CloudBurst and IBM
Rational Build Forge to fully automate such a process, and thereby provide a
rapid and repeatable means for delivering applications and application
environments.
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09 Dec 2009 |
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Using IBM Rational Team Concert for System z and the Jazz platform: Part 2. Integrating IBM Rational Developer for System z with IBM Rational Team Concert for System z for increased value
Cross-platform application development is difficult today. There are a multitude of tools, a mishmash of processes, cultural differences, and development team silos based on platform or technology used, all of which complicate and slow the software delivery process of these types of applications. This article describes how IBM Rational Developer for System z, the best-of-breed integrated development environment for building cross-platform applications, integrates with the team collaboration facilities provided by the Rational Team Concert for System z software. This integration gives teams that are building cross-platform applications the tools that they need to break down the development silos, coordinate their efforts, provide better communication flow, increase traceability, and achieve higher levels of application quality.
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03 Dec 2009 |
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What's new in Rational Rhapsody 7.5.1
Learn about the new features in the IBM Rational Rhapsody 7.5.1 solution that broaden this leading embedded and realtime systems and software development environment, offering tools that help you quickly create, test, manage and deploy your applications. See how these features and integrations assist your efforts to improve the specification, design, development, documentation and test of your systems and products using the Systems Modeling Language (SysML) and the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
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03 Dec 2009 |
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Increase quality and decrease costs with IBM Rational quality gates
Utilizing quality gates in your development process helps you control and understand your software development lifecycle approach. Quality gates boost project quality by helping ensure that best practices are followed and measured against previous projects. By scrutinizing the software you're developing, you can raise quality issues earlier in your development process, making defects cheaper to fix - helping you reduce your IT operating costs.
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03 Dec 2009 |
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Developing a meet-in-the-middle service flow
Service flow projects offer the ability to aggregate multiple transactions into a single service. The meet-in-the-middle (MIM) approach – that is, mapping an existing program to an existing service interface – is easy using single service projects. Using the IBM Rational Developer for System z environment, you will learn how to map an existing service interface to a CICS service flow so that you can create a Web service using a meet-in-the-middle approach.
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19 Nov 2009 |
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Use plain language for test scripts by implementing SAFS with Rational Functional Tester
Some software testers are inexperienced with scripting languages and the scripting tools that generate test scripts. This situation can create test-development and maintenance issues for the whole testing team. When you implement the Software Automation Framework Support (SAFS) by using IBM Rational Functional Tester, testers can produce and maintain scripts in plain language.
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19 Nov 2009 |
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Effective use of Rational Team Concert for daily scrums
Agile, scrum, and lean methods focus on a core need of team awareness of project tasks and prioritization. Having the appropriate tools to assist with this communication and prioritization is a key to success. This article is about daily scrums from the viewpoint of active participants and how they can best use IBM Rational Team Concert to effectively communicate progress and blockers.
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12 Nov 2009 |
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Configure Rational Functional Tester to run on Linux
IBM Rational Functional Tester is a test automation tool, designed to work on both Microsoft Windows and the Linux operating systems. When you install IBM Rational Functional Tester on the Microsoft Windows operating system, the testing tool is ready to use. However, when you install the tool on the Linux operating system, you must configure the application to take advantage of test automation. This article shows the extra few steps you need to do to test Web-based applications on Linux platforms using IBM Rational Functional Tester.
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12 Nov 2009 |
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Troubleshooting the integration of IBM Rational Quality Manager and Rational Functional Tester
IBM Rational Quality Manager includes features that help you integrate
it with IBM Rational Functional Tester software. After integration, you can
import and run existing Rational Functional Tester automated scripts through
Rational Quality Manager. This article shows you how to use the Rational
Functional Testing Adapter Console for troubleshooting if you are unable to connect the Rational Quality Manager server.
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12 Nov 2009 |
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Integrate Rational Team Concert and Rational Performance Tester for collaborative
script development, version control, and process management
When developing performance test scripts in Rational Performance Tester, you need version control tools to help better manage versions of the scripts. Rational Team Concert not only offers version control but helps you govern the development process. Rational Team Concert provides an efficient way to collaboratively develop the Rational Performance Tester projects and scripts.
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05 Nov 2009 |
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Planning a security strategy: Three core questions to ask
Security teams are overwhelmed by the increasing need to safeguard their information assets. Simultaneously, CEOs are thinking of how to cost-effectively ensure security across their organizations that often span geographic borders. They all want a simple answer to a complex question: Where do I begin? That's what this article is about.
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29 Oct 2009 |
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What's new in Rational Method Composer Version 7.5.0.1
This article summarizes the main enhancements made to IBM Rational Method Composer in the 7.5.0.1 release. In addition to more than 100 defect fixes, this release includes more than 40 enhancements that address client requests.
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28 Oct 2009 |
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WAN Performance, reliability, and scalability improvement for IBM Rational CM Server for Rational ClearCase Remote Client and ClearQuest Web
This article discusses the benefits and the performance, reliability, and scalability gains from changes made to IBM Rational ClearCase and Rational ClearQuest CM Server in Version 7.1.0.2.
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26 Oct 2009 |
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What's new in IBM Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality, Version 8.1
Learn about the new capabilities and updates in IBM Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality, Version 8.1
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22 Oct 2009 |
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Setting up an IBM Rational Application Developer-based iWidget development environment
When widgets are developed for deployment on IBM® Mashup Center, two IBM development tools can be used, the IBM Mashup Center widget factory or IBM Rational® Application Developer. This article explains how to set up IBM Rational Application Developer so that it can be used to create iWidgets for deployment in IBM Mashup Center.
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20 Oct 2009 |
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Rational Publishing Engine introduction for DocExpress users
IBM Rational Publishing Engine is a new, fast, and flexible application for generating documents from a wide variety of software engineering applications. This article explains its key concepts and compares them to DocExpress, so that you can systematically replace that tool.
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15 Oct 2009 |
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What's new in IBM Rational Performance Tester Version 8.1
IBM Rational Performance Tester helps quality assurance teams identify the presence and cause of system performance bottlenecks in their business applications to ensure that they're ready for production deployment. This article describes key features delivered in Version 8.1 that extend analysis capabilities and enhance the test development experience.
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15 Oct 2009 |
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Scrum project management with IBM Rational Team Concert Version 2: Part 2. Plan and manage sprints
For more than a year now, we've been using IBM Rational Team Concert to support our scrum teams, delighting in many of its features, living with some of its shortcomings, and looking forward to the next version. With Version 2, the Jazz and Rational Team Concert teams have delivered dramatic improvements to their scrum and agile estimating and planning support (not to mention a much improved Web client and many other new features). This article series provides an up-to-date tutorial on getting started with Version 2 and the scrum process and highlights new features and capabilities important to scrum teams and their managers. It updates the article published in 2008 that covered "Rational Team Concert Version 1 and scrum project management".
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15 Oct 2009 |
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What's new in Rational Developer for System z, Version 7.6
This article describes the major enhancements introduced in IBM Rational Developer for System z, V7.6, which was released in October 2009.
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15 Oct 2009 |
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Using application data with Rational ClearCase when no integration is available
Some software offers IBM Rational ClearCase integration (SCC or native). This article explains how to check in and check out the application data with ClearCase when no such integration exists by using clearfsimport, a tool that is included with ClearCase.
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15 Oct 2009 |
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Scrum project management with IBM Rational Team Concert Version 2: Part 1. Set up projects, teams, and plans
For more than a year now, we've been using IBM Rational Team Concert to support our scrum teams, delighting in many of its features, living with some of its shortcomings, and looking forward to the next version. With Version 2, the Jazz and Rational Team Concert teams have delivered dramatic improvements to their scrum and agile estimating and planning support (not to mention a much improved Web client and many other new features). This article series provides an up-to-date tutorial on getting started with Version 2 and the scrum process and highlights new features and capabilities important to scrum teams and their managers. It updates the article published in 2008 that covered "Rational Team Concert Version 1 and scrum project management".
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08 Oct 2009 |
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How mainframe software development teams benefit from using Rational Team Concert for System z
Learn how deploying Rational Team Concert for System z provides benefits in collaboration, planning, and agile processes for mainframe software development.
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08 Oct 2009 |
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Create a deployment topology diagram in IBM Rational Software Architect
This article shows how to use IBM Rational Software Architect to create a deployment topology diagram. After completing this exercise, you will be able to model the physical deployment of either a Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) or Microsoft .NET Web application.
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08 Oct 2009 |
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What's new in Rational Team Concert for System z, Version 2.0
Learn about the new functions included in the IBM Rational Team Concert for System z, Version 2.0.0.1 release.
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05 Oct 2009 |
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Rational top 10 articles over the last 5 years
Find out which articles rank highest, either in terms of page views or in the view of the editor, for the IBM Rational zone on developerWorks over the last several years.
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28 Sep 2009 |
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Introduction to JavaServer Faces data templates
Generating JavaServer Faces (JSF) controls based on your existing JavaBeans or other data sources is quick and easy. This article explains how to use the data templates that are included with IBM Rational Application Developer, Version 7.5.4 or later, which give you greater control over which controls are generated and how the resulting page will look.
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25 Sep 2009 |
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The Full-Text Search feature in IBM Rational ClearQuest, Version 7.1: Part 4. Customize to use different languages
This article guides IBM Rational ClearQuest administrators in customizing languages that can be used in the Full-Text Search feature introduced in Version 7.1. This is the last of a four-part series about getting started with this feature.
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24 Sep 2009 |
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Debug and troubleshoot JavaServer Faces applications by using JSFTrace in Rational Application Developer
JSFTrace helps developers get a better understanding of how JavaServer Faces technology works and how to debug their JSF applications faster and more efficiently. This article describes the JSFTrace feature introduced in IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5.4 and how to configure and use it for troubleshooting.
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24 Sep 2009 |
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Using IBM Optim with IBM Rational testing tools to create test databases
This article shows you how to supplement the testing power of IBM Rational Performance Tester and IBM Rational Functional Tester with the database and data-generating capabilities of IBM Optim to simplify the testing process and expand the depth of the tests.
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24 Sep 2009 |
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The Full-Text Search feature in IBM Rational ClearQuest, Version 7.1: Part 3. How to configure, enable, disable, and re-enable this feature
This article guides IBM Rational ClearQuest administrators in configuring and enabling the Full-Text Search feature that was introduced in Version 7.1. This is Part 3 of a four-part series.
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17 Sep 2009 |
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Deployment Planning for IBM Rational ClearQuest Version 7.1
To get optimal use from the new features in IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.1, some customization and configuration is required. This article gives an overview of the new features and necessary configuration tasks.
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17 Sep 2009 |
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Use EGL Rich UI and HATS to integrate green-screen applications in your SOA
This article summarizes the Enterprise Generation Language Rich User Interface (EGL Rich UI) support provided in IBM’s EGL tooling products; Rational Developer for System z with EGL, Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction, and Rational Business Developer, in combination with Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS). Using these solutions you can quickly and easily create Web applications to access business logic and transactions contained within character-based 3270 and 5250 applications in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment.
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16 Sep 2009 |
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Test dynamic Web applications with IBM Rational Functional Tester scripts that can handle application changes
Frequently changing Web pages and Web applications make testing and test-script development a frustrating challenge. With IBM Rational Functional Tester you can develop clean test scripts that can withstand these changes and still put your application through its paces, build after build.
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10 Sep 2009 |
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Process multiple IBM Rational Team Concert resources in IBM Rational Insight
Learn how to use the extract, transform, and load (ETL) tool that is included with Rational Insight to process more than one IBM Rational Team Concert data source. This article explains how to perform an ETL action on multiple Rational Team Concert data sources in IBM Rational Insight using Cognos Data Manager.
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10 Sep 2009 |
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The Full-Text Search feature in IBM Rational ClearQuest, Version 7.1: Part 1. Search overview and use cases
ClearQuest Full-Text Search is one of the new features in IBM Rational ClearQuest Version 7.1. With this tool, a ClearQuest Web user can search any ClearQuest record the same way as searching the Web. This article helps ClearQuest administrators understand the new feature and its setup, configuration, and underlying architecture.
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03 Sep 2009 |
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The Full-Text Search feature in IBM Rational ClearQuest, Version 7.1: Part 2. Install the components
This article guides IBM Rational ClearQuest administrators in installing the components of the Full-Text Search feature introduced in Version 7.1. It is Part 2 of a five-part series about getting started with this feature.
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03 Sep 2009 |
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Build robust scripts for reliability tests in IBM Rational Performance Tester
A reliability test that stops before the test finishes wastes your time and resources. Learn how you can use IBM Rational Performance Tester and custom code to develop powerful scripts that withstand the problems that stop other tests.
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03 Sep 2009 |
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Working with ClearCase Unicode Type Manager
Get an overview of the IBM Rational ClearCase Unicode Type Manager (UTM) introduced in Version 7.1, which helps you get started quickly by using the same version of Unicode files.
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27 Aug 2009 |
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Integrating IBM Rational Performance Tester with remote scripts
This article presents step-by-step procedures for starting remote scripts from IBM Rational Performance tester so that you can reduce manual steps, save time, and improve performance testing productivity. With the custom code that Rational Performance Tester provides, you can manipulate recorded scripts so that you can automate starting remote scripts to control the target computer during run time.
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20 Aug 2009 |
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Reverse engineer UML diagrams by using IBM Rational Software Architect, Version 7.5
In IBM Rational Software Architect, Version 7.5, you can reverse engineer code to analyze a Java project by creating inheritance trees that contain details of classes and their relationships as Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams. This article explains the steps to use reverse engineering on a small Java project.
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13 Aug 2009 |
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IBM Rational Modeling Extension with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and .NET
Framework 3.0 support
IBM Rational Modeling Extension for Microsoft .NET for IBM Rational Software Architect Standard Edition or IBM Rational Software Modeler provides application modeling and code generation in the C# language. The integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 means that developers can use it with the 2005 version of Visual Studio, too. It also supports the Microsoft .NET framework 3.0 Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service modeling and code generation.
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10 Aug 2009 |
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Connect your user interface to existing back-end services
The User Interface Generator command framework, a component of the IBM
InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) Workbench, provides a robust, flexible
mechanism for connecting a generated user interface into existing back-end
services. In this article, learn about the User Interface Generator command
bean framework, and about each of the components it generates. An example
shows how the command beans can be implemented to quickly and easily connect
to a set of back-end services.
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07 Aug 2009 |
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Build a user model with Rational Software Architect and the User Interface Generator
In this article, learn how to use the tooling provided by the
User Interface Generator to create a user model. The model follows the
principles outlined in User
modeling demystified,
and describes how users of a system will interact with the model. The tooling
provides extensions to Rational Software Architect's existing UML modeling
capabilities that simplify the user modeling process for both new and
experienced UML modelers. Learn how you can use the User Interface Generator
to minimize the learning curve and dramatically reduce the time required to
create a user model.
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07 Aug 2009 |
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Continuous integration with IBM Rational ClearCase Remote Client
IBM Rational ClearCase Remote Client is a software configuration management (SCM) tool that supports agile development processes. Continuous integration (CI), which is one of the agile best practices, is an automated process of reproducible builds, including testing, which runs many times a day according to your schedule. CI helps your team find integration problems at the early stages of development. CruiseControl is a tool to run and report the results of your build. This article shows you how to implement CI with ClearCase Remote Client and CruiseControl.
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06 Aug 2009 |
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Simplify UCM delivery for IBM Rational ClearCase in a UNIX environment
This article describes a practical approach to simplify the process of making a delivery in an IBM Rational ClearCase environment for the UNIX system by following some of the best practices in the field. The techniques described and the hints and tips are helpful for application developers, for whom this is a common yet critical part of the software development process.
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06 Aug 2009 |
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Configuring an Oracle database for use with IBM Rational Quality Manager
Learn how to configure an Oracle database server for use with IBM Rational Quality Manager and create a table on the Oracle database server.
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30 Jul 2009 |
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Using IBM Rational Requirements Composer and IBM Rational RequisitePro together
Get guidance for introducing IBM Rational Requirements Composer into your requirements management process. If you are using IBM Rational RequisitePro, you can use Rational Requirements Composer to import requirements and to elaborate and visualize them. If you are not currently using a formal requirements management tool, you can start with Requirements Composer to define and visualize requirements, and then introduce RequisitePro, where you can manage your Requirements Composer requirements using a formal management tool. This allows you to take advantage of RequisitePro features as traceability.
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30 Jul 2009 |
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IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5 Portal Toolkit: Part 5. Tooling support for events and public render parameters for portal and portlet applications
This article walks you through the creation of a sample JSR 286 basic portlet application using the Portal Toolkit in IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5. In the process, it explains how the Portal Toolkit expedites the whole process to leverage these capabilities. Detailed instructions show how to enable events and public render parameters by using the new event wizard and the enhanced portlet deployment descriptor visual editor.
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23 Jul 2009 |
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Tips for installing and configuring IBM Rational Application Developer on a Citrix Presentation Server
The Citrix Presentation Server is one of the platforms supported by IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform products. This article explains several important things to do on the Citrix server and client machines so that multiple users can develop with Rational Application Developer while using Citrix clients. The author also addresses a few limitations. This information is based on testing Rational Application Developer Version 7.5 with Citrix Presentation Server Version 4.5 (Version 5.0 of the Citrix Presentation Server is called Citrix XenApp).
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23 Jul 2009 |
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What's new in IBM Rational Functional Tester Version 8.1
Learn about storyboard testing and other new features, wizards, technology
support, and integrations in IBM Rational Functional Tester Version 8.1.
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23 Jul 2009 |
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Authorization for component-specific operations in IBM Rational Team Concert
IBM Rational Team Concert provides a wide range of components to support application lifecycle management. Operations owned by components such as Process and Work Item are controlled by respective permission settings. This article explains the aspects that affect the authorization of the component-specific operations within your Jazz repository and the logic behind the permission lookup for these operations.
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20 Jul 2009 |
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Ways to use IBM Rational Functional Tester more effectively
IBM Rational Functional Tester provides features by which
users can automate testing of their GUI applications effectively. The IBM
Quality Software Engineering (QSE) team introduced a hierarchical
framework, known as the QSE framework, to make maintenance easier. This framework uses
the Rational Functional Tester object recognition feature. This article shows
you ways to extend your QSE framework and how to use Rational Functional
Tester features to improve productivity, too. You will also get tips for testing applications that support multiple languages
effectively.
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16 Jul 2009 |
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What's new in IBM Rational Software Analyzer Version 7.1
Learn about the new software integration, programming language support, and technology support in Version 7.1 of IBM Rational Software Analyzer. This extensible software helps you review software code, identify bugs, and enforce code quality policy early in the software development cycle, when problems are easier and less expensive to correct.
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14 Jul 2009 |
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Easier globalization of JavaServer Faces Web applications with IBM Rational Application Developer
Learn how to use IBM Rational Application Developer to enable globalization for JavaServer Faces Web applications. This article describes challenges in developing for global markets and explains how using the JavaServer Faces Widget Library (JWL) can help you handle them with ease.
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09 Jul 2009 |
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Incorporating external features in IBM Rational Functional Tester
You can use IBM Rational Functional Tester capabilities to improve your reports and scripts. This article shows you how to make them more powerful and feature- packed by using available features to work with processes, send e-mail, create screen captures, customize reports, create external property files, and generate unique data.
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02 Jul 2009 |
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Extend IBM InfoSphere Data Architect to meet your specific data
modeling and integration requirements, Part 2: Build customized reports and validation rules with IDA
IBM InfoSphere Data Architect (IDA) (formerly Rational Data
Architect) is gaining momentum as a comprehensive tool that helps
organizations promote a thorough understanding of their enterprise information
architecture. As more people use IDA, there's an increasing need for some
customers to extend IDA to meet their unique data modeling and integration
requirements. This two-part series shows you how to extend IDA's models,
properties view, model reports and validation rules. In Part 1, you learned how to
programmatically traverse and modify IDA models and how to add and display
custom properties. In Part 2, learn how to generate customized reports and how
to add your own validation rules for IDA models. [2009 Jul 02: This article
was updated to reflect that the GUI for BIRT report
customization has been changed for performance improvement. This is shown in
the section that describes how to generate customized model reports using BIRT.--Ed.]
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02 Jul 2009 |
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IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5 Portal
Toolkit: Part 4. Static page aggregation
With static page aggregation, you can create portal pages from static HTML layouts or templates in an IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 project. This article guides you through the step-by-step process of creating, designing, customizing, and aggregating such static layouts by using IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5, targeting the portal server runtime environment. You do not need to know a lot about the underlying portal APIs to follow the steps in this article.
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02 Jul 2009 |
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Extend IBM InfoSphere Data Architect to meet your specific data
modeling and integration requirements, Part 1: Modifying IDA models and customizing properties
IBM InfoSphere Data Architect (IDA) (formerly Rational Data
Architect) is gaining momentum as a comprehensive tool that helps
organizations promote a thorough understanding of their enterprise information
architecture. As more people use IDA, there's an increasing need for some
customers to extend IDA to meet their unique data modeling and integration
requirements. This two-part series shows you how to extend IDA's models,
properties view, model reports and validation rules. In Part 1, learn how to
programmatically traverse and modify IDA models and how to add and display
custom properties. [IDA Version 7.5 has adapted Data Tools
Project (DTP) to replace Web Tools Project (WTP).
Because IDA uses the SQL model defined in DTP as the basis of its metamodels,
the section "Programmatically traverse and modify RDA logical data model and
physical data model," as well as the sample code provided with the
article, were updated.--Ed.]
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25 Jun 2009 |
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Using IBM Rational Functional Tester to work with objects wrapped in HTML table cells
This article shows you how to use IBM Rational Functional Tester to automate objects wrapped inside of HTML table cells while keeping the specified cells as a reference. It will help you automate operations on these objects.
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25 Jun 2009 |
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Faces library definitions for third-party JavaServer Faces controls
This article describes the new Faces Library Definition feature in IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5. With this feature, you can import an arbitrary third-party JSF (JavaServer Faces) component library and fine-tune the behavior of the JSF tools when you work with that library's UI components.
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18 Jun 2009 |
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30 productivity tips from the developers of IBM Rational Requirements Composer: 30 productivity tips from the developers of IBM Rational Requirements Composer Part 3. Templates
Learn how to use IBM Rational Requirements Composer to create templates from artifacts and to reuse existing templates easily in other projects.
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18 Jun 2009 |
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Design debt economics: A vocabulary for describing the causes, costs, and cures for software maintainability problems
from The Rational Edge: Code maintainability is vitally important to software quality and is relevant to all development stakeholders. This article explains the impacts of code maintainability problems and how to identify and mitigate them.
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12 Jun 2009 |
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30 productivity tips from the developers of IBM Rational Requirements Composer: Part 2. Collaboration
IBM Rational Requirements Composer fosters collaboration by offering universal tools and views to search for, comment on, and define and navigate links between artifacts of any type. This exploration of these common facilities is punctuated by specific tips from the developers of Rational Requirements Composer to help you use this software more productively. Analysts with this knowledge will spend less time opening artifacts unnecessarily and retyping redundant information and more time perfecting their customers' requirements. This is Part 2 of a three-part series.
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03 Jun 2009 |
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Process Mashups: Helping Project Teams Put the Pieces Together
from The Rational Edge: Read this overview of mashups -- a type of situational application for the Web 2.0 era. The author explores the use of IBM Mashup Center environment to facilitate project team members to consolidate and access process information that is relevant to their roles on the project team.
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01 Jun 2009 |
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Design debt economics: A vocabulary for describing the causes, costs, and cures for software maintainability problems
from The Rational Edge: Code maintainability is vitally important to software quality and is relevant to all development stakeholders. This article explains the impacts of code maintainability problems and how to identify and mitigate them.
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01 Jun 2009 |
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Enterprise Architecture for Systems Engineers
from The Rational Edge: Learn from two recognized experts about the key connection points between the enterprise architecture and the system architecture, and how the enterprise architecture both influences and constrains system development.
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01 Jun 2009 |
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30 productivity tips from the developers of IBM Rational
Requirements Composer: Part 1. Navigation
Software requirements are actualized in a variety of forms that can be
difficult to navigate and discuss uniformly: use case diagrams, screen
mock-ups, text descriptions, flow charts, and so forth. Besides providing
specific editors for these types of content, IBM Rational Requirements
Composer fosters collaboration by offering universal tools and views to
search for, comment on, and define and navigate links between artifacts of
any type. This exploration of these common facilities is punctuated by
specific tips and tricks from the developers of Rational Requirements
Composer to help you use this software more productively. With this
knowledge, you will spend less time opening artifacts unnecessarily and
retyping redundant information and more time meeting your customers'
requirements.
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01 Jun 2009 |
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Does Agility scale? Wrong question!
from The Rational Edge: Read about the application of Agile practices to large projects, and how specific organizational values and context can help you decide which Agile practices to adopt.
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01 Jun 2009 |
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Anatomy of a Linux hypervisor
One of the most important modern innovations of Linux is its
transformation into a hypervisor (or, an operating system for other operating
systems). A number of hypervisor solutions have appeared that use Linux as the
core. This article explores the ideas behind the hypervisor and two particular
hypervisors that use Linux as the platform (KVM and Lguest).
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31 May 2009 |
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What’s New in IBM Rational Rhapsody Version 7.5
Get an overview of the new features in IBM Rational Rhapsody that you can use to develop software in real-time and embedded systems. You can use these features even for resource-constrained targets, such as microcontrollers, and you can use the SysML and UPDM features to describe systems better.
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28 May 2009 |
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Introducing IBM Rational Insight V1.0
IBM Rational Insight provides consistent metrics from across the organization and deployed tools to measure status and progress against defined business and organizational objectives. Rational Insight implements standard measurements, reports, and dashboards to provide accurate insight into systems and software delivery organization.
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26 May 2009 |
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IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5 Portal
Toolkit: Part 3. Web 2.0 portlet and portal programming support for IBM WebSphere Portal
Version 6.1
This article describes the Web 2.0 tooling support introduced in IBM Rational
Application Developer Version 7.5 for portlet and portal applications running on IBM
WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 and higher. To help you understand this tooling support
better, the author also discusses the basics and benefits of the Web 2.0-based
technologies.
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26 May 2009 |
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Comment lines: Tony Efremenko: A key ingredient for a more agile team is professional
certification
Agile development is good, is used at IBM, and works best when everyone
adheres to the guidelines and values set forth by professional certifications. Want to
make agile development even better? Get certified!
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20 May 2009 |
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The Support Authority: IBM Software Support Toolbar provides shortcuts to problem solving resources
Support resources for IBM software can literally be just a click (or two) away when
you have the IBM Software Support Toolbar installed on your Web browser. Here's how
to get and use this simple tool that makes accessing documentation, downloads,
education, and other technical information for all IBM
software brands more convenient than ever.
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20 May 2009 |
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IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5 Portal Toolkit: Part 2. Web 2.0 portal development support for features in IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.1
IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 introduces new features, such as client-side aggregation, Friendly URLs, and static page aggregation. WebSphere Portal V6.1 provides new themes, which include a Web 2.0-based theme. IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5 provides the tooling support for these new features. This article describes these features and tools.
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19 May 2009 |
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