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| Telelogic Rhapsody 7.0 Is Released Telelogic has announced the release of Telelogic Rhapsody 7.0, the latest version of its Model-Driven Development environment for embedded systems and software. Rhapsody 7.0 focuses on developer productivity with improved support for multiple workflows (code-centric and model-centric), including Eclipse CDT integration; new features that allow users to implement a software product line approach for the strategic reuse of software assets; plus a long list of usability improvements which significantly ease MDD adoption and streamline the development workflow. Rhapsody 7.0 enables code-centric workflow, easing MDD adoption by allowing hand-coders to build models automatically from code and then to leverage these models for analysis and automatic documentation production. Developers who prefer a model-based approach can design at a higher level of abstraction, analyze and validate the design at the graphical level, and produce code and documentation automatically. The Eclipse CDT integration, a new feature found in Rhapsody 7.0, allows C and C++ code-centric developers to work in the Eclipse environment while model-centric developers work in Rhapsody. This integration provides automatic synchronization between the code and the model, with easy navigation between the two, allowing developers to adopt MDD at their own pace. With Rhapsody 7.0, developers can mix C, C++, and Java in the same model to optimize the development of multi-language applications. Additionally, Rhapsody 7.0 continues the Telelogic "Code Respect" initiative to better preserve the structure, formatting, and syntax of reverse-engineered code. Code Respect along with Rhapsody's already powerful code visualization, round tripping and dynamic model / code associativity features offer four powerful options to developers who wish to integrate hand-written code into the model. Rhapsody 7.0 also provides an automated base-aware Difference and Merging (DiffMerge) feature, that enhances support for parallel development processes and reduces integration time. To enhance the reuse of software assets, including support for organizations implementing the Software Product Line (SPL) approach, Rhapsody 7.0 provides numerous flexibility and process automation features that improve the implementation of SPL. Not limited to organizations implementing SPL, these features are also useful to anyone with an advanced, parallel, or complex development process. The ability to open multiple projects in one Rhapsody session and store components under packages within a project provides process flexibility. Enhancements to Rhapsody's configuration and requirement management interfaces refines user control over core assets and final products. These new capabilities, coupled with the already flexible and customizable MDD capabilities found in Rhapsody 7.0, assist users who seek a MDD-based SPL approach. With Rhapsody 7.0, Telelogic set out to establish a new standard for usability among MDD tools. To create a better out-of-the-box experience, a new welcome window now appears when Rhapsody is opened. This widow provides navigation to user resources such as sample models, documentation, tutorials and release contents. The content of this window is user configurable, removing the "blank window syndrome" and enabling users to start working with Rhapsody more quickly. Many of the tab windows can now be broken out into separate windows and docked in the general workspace, and set to either freeze on the currently selected element or to update when new elements are selected. These new capabilities enable the user to more easily navigate the model and provide a more seamless workflow. New search and embedded help capabilities have been added to Rhapsody Properties, used to control and customize modeling elements, that allow users to easily navigate to the relevant property, and / or to the embedded help which describes the property and how to set it. Rhapsody 7.0 further improves developer productivity with C and Java-specific developer refinements. The look and feel of the MDD environment has been optimized for the C developer, enabling design at the graphical level using concepts and terms that map to the C programming language. The user's experience is enhanced, and this enables embedded C developers to obtain the benefits provided by MDD while reducing the learning curve. In addition, new C rules-based code generation provides users with complete control over the code they generate, reducing project risk and increasing long-term code reuse. For the Java developer, Rhapsody Java code generation has been upgraded to support JDK 5 (1.5) generics and type safe containers allowing Rhapsody users to produce code from a wider range of modeling constructs. Rhapsody 7.0 sets the professional standard for embedded systems and software development by focusing on developer productivity, easing the learning curve for MDD, driving SPL implementation and asset reuse, and supporting code-centric and model-centric workflows including a seamless integration with Eclipse CDT. Rhapsody 7.0 is shipping already. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |