External elements
In IBM® Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody® you can visualize frozen legacy code or edit external code as external elements.
This external code is code that is developed and maintained outside of Rhapsody . This
code will not be regenerated by Rhapsody , but
will participate in code generation of Rhapsody models
that interact or interface with this external code so, 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.
Rhapsody supports the following functionality for 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.
- Rhapsody
generates the correct
#includefor references to external elements. - Elements inherit their externality from the parent. For example, if a package is external, all its aggregates are also external.
- You can add external elements to component files to define the exact location of the source code.
- Rhapsody displays external elements in the scope tree of the component.
There are two ways to create external elements:
- By reverse engineering the files
- By modeling