Collaborating over multiple sites with Rhapsody

Collaboration through webify

Besides, web-enabling a Rhapsody model for the purposes of controlling it and monitoring it remotely, web-enabling can also serve as part of your development process. As a development tool, web-enabling (also known as webify) makes both remote and local collaboration possible and facilitates building and testing within a rapid prototyping approach.

Collaborating on the development of a web-enabled model through the web interface for the model, enables developers to look into the model behavior and view its behavior as it is controlled. As if accessing the device from different windows, developers can collaboratively view the behavior of a model, or build from a working prototype, whether through the Rhapsody interface or the web interface for the model. Members of development teams with access to the application for the web server can trigger events and change writable, web-exposed element values. Anyone on the development team with access to the web server for the model can use a web browser to look at the model and to change the status of the model at any time. When changing element values through the internet through the web GUI for the model, those changes occur in real time; immediately, within the animated diagrams of the Rhapsody interface, local developers can see the model behavior as it is controlled through the web interface by a remote team member.

In this way, you can use web-enabling model as a real-time use case, model a scenario of device usability, mimick the device during different processes and test its performance by using the system itself to observe the behavior of the system.

Rapid prototyping