Rational Product Announcment

Rational Product Announcment

[Kent Mitchell]

RATIONAL ANNOUNCES ITS NEXT-GENERATION SOFTWARE-ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT

   Santa Clara, CA (July 6, 1993)--Rational has announced its
next-generation software-engineering environment featuring a fully
integrated, scalable set of tools for controlling the development of
complex software systems. Rational Apex is a robust, interactive,
team-oriented, software-engineering environment that promotes
architecture and code reuse, improves software quality, and supports
object-oriented development methodologies. It simplifies application
development by automating modern software-engineering processes and
greatly reducing the time that developers must spend designing, coding,
debugging, and testing.

   Rational Apex is a full, open-systems implementation of the Rational
Environment, a robust Ada software-engineering environment that has been
used since 1985 to develop some of the world's largest, most complex
applications consisting of millions of lines of code. The first
implementation of Rational Apex is on the IBM RISC System/6000 platform.
Rational Apex will be available on other standard open-systems platforms
later this year.

Features

   Rational Apex is an integrated software-development solution that
provides capabilities for team support, software testing, large-scale
software reuse, and postdeployment maintenance.

   Persistent Intermediate Representation

   One of the unique features of Rational Apex is its persistent
intermediate representation, which captures and manages information
about a user's software and stores it in an object-oriented repository.
Data is entered into the repository only once, avoiding duplication of
information. The same information can be accessed by analysis and design
tools, editors, compilers, debuggers, and reengineering and maintenance
tools.

   Optimal Recompilation

   Another key feature of Rational Apex is optimal recompilation, which
improves productivity and dramatically reduces the time needed to
perform the edit-compile-test-debug cycle. Optimal recompilation means
that when a change, addition, or deletion is made to a statement or
declaration, only those individual statements and declarations that
depend on the changed code are recompiled. In many cases, no
recompilation is required.

   Configuration Management and Subsystems

   In addition to its edit-compile-debug capabilities, Rational Apex lets
teams of users control parallel development and manage complexity
through configuration management and version control (CMVC) and Rational
Subsystems. CMVC automatically keeps detailed records of changes made to
the code. CMVC prevents unauthorized changes and controls parallel
development, enabling multiple developers or teams to work from the same
baselined code. CMVC also provides complete history and project
reporting.

   Rational Subsystems capture a system's architecture and make it visible
to the entire development team. This enables developers to control and
enforce their architecture throughout the software lifecycle and
implement iterative development methods that reduce risk by exposing it
early. In addition, users can identify, package, and distribute reusable
software components.

   Compiler Independence

   Rational Apex can also work in conjunction with any Ada compiler from any
   vendor on any platform.

Availability

Rational Apex will begin shipping in August 1993 on the IBM RISC
System/6000 with Sun SPARC/SunOS 4.1.x to follow shortly.

For more information, send e-mail to product_info@rational.com or call 
408-496-3857.

Re: Rational Product Announcment

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Kent Mitchell (kdm@Rational.COM) wrote:
: RATIONAL ANNOUNCES ITS NEXT-GENERATION SOFTWARE-ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT

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:                           Rational Apex is a robust, interactive,
: team-oriented, software-engineering environment that promotes
: architecture and code reuse, improves software quality, and supports
: object-oriented development methodologies.
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:    One of the unique features of Rational Apex is its persistent
: intermediate representation, which captures and manages information
: about a user's software and stores it in an object-oriented repository.
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Great! WILL YOU BE AT OOPSLA PLUGGING THIS PRODUCT??????

Jim Crigler
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