Tools for System Modeling Term Paper

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system modeling? Do you already have them installed? If you are installing the Rational XDE, how did it go?

According to Allen McNaughton of Devx online computer magazine, the systems modeling program Rational XDE, in contrast to Microsoft's Visio systems modeling software, is by far the superior program of the two options. Unlike Microsoft's Visio, "Rational XDE supports round-trip engineering with continuous synchronization between the code and model elements that removes the need for separate forward and reverse engineering steps." Continuous synchronization within programs, says McNaughton, will be the wave of the future in modeling tools.
(McNaughton, 2002)

Furthermore, within the Rational XDE program, "options are provided to control the frequency of code/model synchronization or to disable it entirely for selected elements if performance problems arise with large models," enabling users to tailor it to their specific programming needs. The program is useful as well "when approaching software design from a model-first-and-code-later perspective, as "when you use Rational XDE to reverse engineer a Web project that contains a code-behind file, Rational XDE creates an….....

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