Rational readies Microsoft app dev tools
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Rational at the Rational User Conference 2002 in Orlando, Fla. this week plans to extend its support of UML application modeling to development of applications based on Microsoft's Visual Basic.Net and ASP.Net (Active Server Pages) platforms, according to Rational. The Rational Extended Development Environment (XDE) will be able to support these Microsoft platforms in Rational XDE Professional Version 2002 R2. UML models provide an industry standard notation for visualizing the design of an application, said Rational's Roger Oberg, vice president of product marketing at Rational, in Lexington, Mass.
"Developers using Visual Studio .Net who have Rational XDE [can] now continue to do the round-trip engineering that they had for C# in the XDE environment," Oberg said. Round trip engineering is the ability to design using UML models and associate that to generate code in C# or Visual Basic and reverse-engineer as well, Oberg said.