IBM Rational Rose XDE
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Rational Rose XDE, an "eXtended Development Environment" for software developer
Software development
Software development is the development of a software product...

s, integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer. The Rational
Rational Software
Rational Machines was founded by Paul Levy and Mike Devlin in 1981 to provide tools to expand the use of modern software engineering practices, particularly explicit modular architecture and iterative development...

 division of IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

, which previously produced Rational Rose, wrote this software.

With the IBM Rational June 2006 Product Release, IBM withdrew the “XDE” family of products and introduced the Rational Rose Family of products as replacements.

The Rational Rose Family of products is a set of UML modeling tools for software design. The Unified Modeling Language
Unified Modeling Language
Unified Modeling Language is a standardized general-purpose modeling language in the field of object-oriented software engineering. The standard is managed, and was created, by the Object Management Group...

 (UML) is the industry-standard language for specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of software systems. It simplifies the complex process of software design, creating a "blueprint" for construction of software systems.

The IBM Rational Rose family is for customers wishing to integrate with legacy integrated development environments or languages. For more modern architectures IBM Rational Software Architect
IBM Rational Software Architect
IBM Rational Software Architect, made by IBM's Rational Software division, is a comprehensive modeling and development environment that uses the Unified Modeling Language for designing architecture for C++ and Java 2 Enterprise Edition applications and web services...

 and IBM Rational Software Modeler
IBM Rational Software Modeler
IBM Rational Software Modeler was withdrawn from marketing on August 17, 2010. IBM Rational Software Modeler, made by IBM's Rational Software division, is a Unified Modeling Language 2.0-based visual modeling and design tool...

were developed. These products were created matching and surpassing Rose XDE capabilities to include support for UML 2.x, pattern customization support, the latest programming languages and approaches to software development such as SOA and more powerful data modeling that supports Entity-Relationship modeling.
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