Visualization of external elements

IBM® Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody® enables you to visualize legacy code or edit external code as external elements.

This external code is code that is developed and maintained outside of Rhapsody. This code is not regenerated by the product, but participates in code generation of Rhapsody models that interact or interface with this external code. For example, the appropriate #include statement is generated. This functionality provides easy modeling with code written outside of Rhapsody, and a better understanding of a proven system.

The product supports the following reverse engineering functionality using external elements:

• Reverse engineering can import elements as external.
• Reverse engineering populates the model with enough information to:
  • Model external elements in the model.
  • Enable you to open the source of the external elements, even if the element is not included in the scope of the active component.