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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rational Rose
XDE, an "eXtended Development Environment" for software developers,
integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and IBM WebSphere Studio
Application Developer. The Rational division of IBM, which previously
produced Rational Rose, wrote this software. With the IBM Rational June
2006 Product Release, IBM withdrew the "XDE" family of products and
introduced the Rational Rose Family of products as replacements. The
Rational Rose Family of products is the Market-leading UML modeling
tools for software design. You can Design C++, Visual Studio .NET and
J2EE applications using UML v1.4 with the Rational Rose family of
software design tools.
