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What is the IBM® Rational® Software Architect Designer Extension for Integrated Architecture Frameworks?

This extension connects business requirements with solution designs. It provides integrated architecture frameworks and requirements management. This enables you to represent business concerns and link them to your solution architecture requirements, representations, value files and spreadsheets.

What are some of the features of the Rational Software Architect Designer Extension for Integrated Architecture Frameworks?

This extension integrates business requirements with solution architecture requirements and designs. The solution has both UPIA and DoDAR support. The extensible environment supports additional architecture frameworks and their iconographies, queries, views and reports.

What is the Rational Software Architect Designer Extension for Deployment Planning?

This extension enables you to create deployment specifications. It provides topology templates and deployment models to ensure your software solutions deploy correctly on the first attempt. It also reduces development risks and improves communications throughout development operations.

What are some of the features of the Rational Software Architect Designer Extension for Deployment Planning?

This extension includes key functionality for deployment planning, and tool palettes and templates to enable reuse and standardization. It creates specifications to reduce risks and improve communications.

Does the Rational Software Architect Designer Extension for Deployment Planning integrate with UML?

It integrates with UML and Eclipse, enabling conceptual representations (UML and SoaML) and concrete representations (enterprise archive and web archive) of to-be-deployed software to be mapped to plans.

What is the Rational Software Architect Designer Extension for SOA and WebSphere?

This extension enables you to design and deliver SOA solutions targeting IBM WebSphere® environments. With this extension, you can design and deliver Java Platform, Enterprise Edition solutions for IBM WebSphere Application Server and Portal to maximize efficiency of your WebSphere investments.

What are some of the features of the Rational Software Architect Designer Extension for SOA and WebSphere?

This extension provides a core set of tools for application development. It also provides Rational SOMA 2.9 practice guidance that supports service identification and specification and transformations including SOA realizations and harvesting service representations.

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