Extensibility overview

IBM® DevOps Model Architect features can be extended to address the specific needs of an entire company, a project, or an individual user. An extensibility effort can be as simple as defining some additional properties or as advanced as defining an entire new plug-in.

The extensibility features in the Rational® UML modeling products are packaged as an optional product component that must be installed in order to access the documentation and examples referenced below. These extensibility features build on the open-source Eclipse components to support a variety of efforts, including the following typical extensions:

Properties and stereotypes to capture project-specific information
Constraints to validate the consistency of your model
Patterns to automate application of design and architectural patterns
Transformations to transform your model data to source code or other metamodels
Script-like programs, such as pluglets, to access and modify model information
Programs to extract model information for purposes such as reporting, metrics, and export
Programs to populate model information from other sources, including other development tools
Eclipse plug-ins that use model information to further enhance the workbench or your custom perspectives and views

All of the above examples use a combination of application programming interfaces (APIs), extension points, specialized development environments, and utilities. Review the extensibility components provided by Eclipse and the Rational UML modeling products to learn how to implement your extensions.

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