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News Release from: I-Logix Europe | Subject: Rhapsody 4.0
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 17 September 2001
Development platform works on a larger
scale
I-Logix has launched Rhapsody 4.0, the new version to its application development platform.
I-Logix has launched Rhapsody 4.0, the new version to its application development platform Rhapsody 4.0 features a new user interface to improve usability
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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In addition, 4.0 offers developers increased scalability and support for all UML diagrams.
These enhancements improve individual developer productivity as well as facilitate large-scale and multisite development efforts.
Rhapsody is now tuned with a highly intuitive user-interface specifically designed for accelerating user interaction with the modelling environment.
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Rhapsody also provides highly scalable model organisation and storage capabilities.
"In today's competitive marketplace, it is critical that our customers be able to work more efficiently and collaborate with experts across the organisation or with their customers", said Gene Robinson, I-Logix' president and CEO.
"We're committed to extending the power of UML to embedded developers to help them work efficiently.
We have delivered a new intuitive user interface that shortens the learning cycle, allowing developers to get at the strength of our product and start building better products faster.
With this release, the productivity of the individual developer will improve significantly while ensuring that large-scale designs can be easily handled".
New Rhapsody 4.0 features, which will be available in Q4 of this year, include enhancements that address both user productivity and large-scale collaboration.
The graphical user interface has been completely redesigned to enhance productivity.
The new browser now includes a filter so that the model can be displayed according to the phase of development (analysis, design, implementation) or by logical design component, depending on what the user wants to see.
Also, the browser has been further extended to include and display all metadata.
The deployment diagram is added.
It is used to depict the relationship between hardware elements and run-time software elements and allows the user to draw the physical architecture on which the software will be executed.
This release now includes support for the full set of UML diagrams.
In Rhapsody 4.0, it is now possible to support flat or hierarchical Rhapsody repositories and store design elements in single or multiple configuration management archives.
This makes it easier to partition and organise UML designs.
It is now possible to load only those parts of a design that are specifically necessary.
Developers using Rhapsody no longer need to load the entire design.
In addition, during debugging developers can selectively view and animate specific components of interest.
Lastly, Rhapsody automatically recognises what is changed and saves only those portions of the design.
These capabilities are designed to save time and increase developer efficiency particularly for very large model developments.
In addition, Rhapsody now delivers advanced testing and validation functionality through the launch of Rhapsody TestConductor, the industry's first UML-compliant scenario-based test generation suite for real-time embedded applications.
TestConductor greatly enhances the validation process of real-time embedded applications.
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