Rational Software#Second-generation products

Rational Rose is a UML tool for the description of software systems. Using Rational Rose can be both program hulls from UML descriptions and generate UML diagrams from source code.

It was originally developed by the company Rational Rose Rational Software, and thus, inter alia, by the developers of UML ( Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh and Ivar Jacobson ). In 2002 Rational Software became the property of IBM.

History

The first Rational Rose version appeared in 1984. Rational Rose 1.0 was presented at the 1992 OOPSLA, but was withdrawn from the market because of performance problems.

Rose 2.0 then combined the Object System Designer, a Windows -based Booch notation editor, with a new presentation and new semantic analysis, code generation and reverse engineering facilities. Reverse engineering enabled users to analyze existing code to create navigable class diagrams. Rose 2.0 running on Windows PCs and various other Unix systems. As early as 1995 had Rational Rose more than 10,000 users.