Rational Rhapsody Developer

The IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® Developer solution is a embedded and real time embedded software development environment based on UML. Rhapsody lends itself to an iterative or agile design approach where your software can be constantly executed and validate on the host environment, then brought right down to the embedded target application, to help provide target-based testing. The Rational Rhapsody environment can synchronize changes in code to keep the design and implementation synchronized.

Allowing software developers to develop C, C++, Java, Ada or C# software in the way they feel most comfortable is the Rational Rhapsody Developer product's basic philosophy. Code that is generated from the model is just another view of the model, which allows the developer to make changes at the model or source level and have either dynamically update. This dynamic model/code associativity helps provide the flexibility to design at any level of granularity, helping to keep the model and documentation consistent with the code. Using the Rational Rhapsody Developer solution within Eclipse provides an integrated model and code environment to perform development tasks.

Rational Rhapsody provides domain specific language (DSL) helping systems engineers and software developers to create their own unique diagrams and diagram elements which that are relevant to their design domain. Rational Rhapsody provides SysML for system engineering, graphical C tailored with terms for C developers, AUTOSAR for automotive architecture and code development, Android for mobile device development, DDS for architecting publish subscribe architectures, MARTE (Modeling and Analysis of Real-Time Embedded Systems) profile enabling modeling real time concepts, plus others.

The IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® for DoDAF, MODAF, and UPDM Add On provides support for these standards allowing teams to create DoDAF and MODAF models while leveraging Rational Rhapsody’s execution capabilities to help validate the architecture.

The net centric systems profile in the IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® Tools and Utilities Add On provides support for domain-specific profiles that allows you to specify services within your design. System engineers can specify their net-centric systems at a high level of abstraction and refrain from low level implementation details. In addition, Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) files can be generated directly from the model or imported into the model.

For more detailed system requirements see the Rational Rhapsody Software Release Information.